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 […]

a good music teacher told her class certain lessons are never learned only a pattern is repeated. the problem, the attempt to fix it and the inevitable failure and that […]

Lady Day and John Coltrane by Gil Scott-Heron Lenny by Bob Dylan Goodbye Pork Pie Hat by Joni Mitchell All Those Years Ago by George Harrison Tonight’s the Night by […]

went to the store to get a few groceries but long line up. we take turns looking at each other and looking at the shopping carts and looking at the […]