I spent a good bit of my time as a young musician trying to prove that I had the maturity and gravitas to contribute to the river of art and creativity I was thirsting after.  I now spend a good…

The Adirondack’s rose above half iced-over lakes.  With their peaks no longer blanketed by snow, but still frozen in time, they are rampart reminders of age-old battles and lifelong challenges.  From the windshield of the old ‘98 band-van, we gazed…

It’s been an exhausting few weeks of making the new Runaway Home record, but I can safely say that I’m tired from making music rather than tired of making music.  What a difference that one word makes.  We have loved…

It’s been an exhausting few weeks of making the new Runaway Home record, but I can safely say that I’m tired from making music rather than tired of making music.  What a difference that one word makes.  We have loved…

We’ve had some difficult days here in Nashville the past two weeks or so.  It’s been a less than gentle reminder of how Mother Nature can define more than just the weather.   Snow, ice, frigid temperatures and the good life…

We’ve had some difficult days here in Nashville the past two weeks or so.  It’s been a less than gentle reminder of how Mother Nature can define more than just the weather.   Snow, ice, frigid temperatures and the good life…

This week I saw a newspaper clipping shared on Facebook about raising teenagers.  It was essentially parenting advice from a judge.  Advice from anyone on parenting always makes me a bit leery.  I always wonder if it’s coming from someone…

Nashville is a fine place to live!  Last weekend I went to see our treasured symphony play in our world-class hall, the Schermerhorn.  They played selections from Leonard Bernstein and Dvorak’s 1893 New World Symphony.   The night started as it…

Photographs capture one moment in time.  The only message they are truly meant to convey is the emotion that exists in-between the opening and the closing of the shutter.   The honest thing about photographs, even if they are in the…

It’s funny that I haven’t thought of our overall blog series title as being a title of an individual post yet, until today.  Sometimes the most obvious of life’s offerings show up when you least expect them to, and hit…

Seasons, diapers, politics, fads, waistlines, hair lines, time zones, tempos, minds, hearts, the weather, girlfriends, boyfriends, twitter trends, the Arctic sea ice pack, gas prices, clothes, caterpillars, leaves, what your kid loves, what your kid hates, shoe size, the thickness…

Wolves and bears throw their noses into the wind with a purposeful thrust and an almost sixth sense of something familiar.  Sometimes it’s the smell of danger, sometimes the safety of home and for the most fortunate; it’s the trace…