Working on a song, wrote verses and a chorus. Need a bridge and it occurs to me that what I seek in a bridge is another angle. And then you […]

There’s a big tree in High Park, someone in the know says it’s two hundred years old. When you touch its magnificent fissures you’re confronted with a different distance between […]

i bought a neumann 87 many years ago and it’s been a workhorse, a very transparent perfect mic for all occasions but then you hear peter gabriel sings through a […]

there are sounds parents make when kids are wee, to pressure them to choose one thing over another. pleading sounds or cooing sounds or warning sounds. using tonality, they try […]

After significant storms you see fallen trees the next day through the vast stretches of forest/ park but nothing like that happened in recent days. So, it was surprising to […]

As obvious as the difference between this: Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies. And this: The contin­uous and (often) collective […]

Ain’t Gonna Study War No More. it’s a riddle because of “study” which elicits an answer about humankind and circular motion, the need to fight/ argue in perpetuity. the only […]

Saw three black squirrels behaving like being chased or as if they were desperate and disoriented. Maybe because snow. New blanket of white interferes with their visual knowledge of entrances […]

John who managed Blue Rodeo, was into Pramahansa Yogananda and his book Autobiography of A Yogi. He used to talk to me about it because I was a vegetarian and […]

i love the del vikings, frankie lymon and ruben and the jets. on the tube of you, recorded by the bbc, there’s a song by frank zappa and the mothers […]