I may someday thank President Donald J. Trump for resurrecting my long dormant blog. I hope that's true, that personally something good comes from his being elected, a train wreck in office and what I expected he would be.

Cast away your fear and loathing for these times, for they are remarkable and will only be what we make of them. I see the ( Read more... )

I opened my LiveJournal account for the first time in months, since last summer. The post before that was last spring and the one before that was February 2015 ... more than a year ago. I wrote 2 blog posts in the last year. 2015 was not a year for self expression, WTF happened to me? I was once trying to be a writer of my thoughts and ideas ... ( Read more... )

We've been kicking around vacation ideas for 2013. I have a budget, a few destinations in mind, music cities, and the idea we should include an event. I checked the websites of all my favorite musicians to see if they're touring, looked at theater schedules in music cities and researched the local comedy scene. After weeks of doing this I'm no ( Read more... )