This morning I put on my first public guitar performance in years. Ok, so the public was my two sleepy black dogs and my 5 1/2 month old son Owen, but hey, it counts! And they all seemed relatively interested and didn’t leave (and it’s beside the fact that Owen isn’t mobile yet and one [...]

Today I drop Emily off at the airport so she can go on a cruise (on my brother’s cruise ship) all next week, while I toil away up here in cold/dark Maine, wishing I had more vacation time. I don’t think I’m that greedy in wishing I had enough vacation to take a few days [...]

And now Waylon Jennings is dead at age 64. They said on NPR he was good friends with Buddy Holly and he actually gave up his seat on the plane so ‘The Big Bopper’ could fly instead on the flight that crashed and killed them, so he got a good run of life since then. [...]