People who are close to me probably have figured out I'm looking for reasons to continue, and a couple of weeks ago I posted some pics on the instagrams of some people who are among the reasons I continue to do music. One of them texted me today:


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I do not, in fact, sound like Janis Joplin. In any way ( Read more... )

Singing with famous people does not make me famous. ;)

This message brought to you by the number "here's my business card" and the letter "I still do gigs in town".

Once upon a time, on a blog I sometimes read, a question was asked about readers' dealbreakers in interpersonal interactions. I wrote a version of this ( Read more... )

I have lots and lots of thoughts. I'm reading your stuff here, even if I don't always comment ( Read more... )

When you lose someone close to you, it's hard. Family members... I've lost a lot of them. It's complicated as hell for me, and has for some of them been very much a relief, but it's still big, and still tough ( Read more... )

I have some very good, very awesome friends. Real, deep, caring friends... people who have my back.

If you don't have anybody like that, maybe it's you.

So, my mother died on Sunday, July 14 ( Read more... )

I've been studying alternative housing for several months now, and I finally realize that one thing in common most of these people who live in really small spaces have is that they don't actually DO anything ( Read more... )

One of the things I dislike about re-certification time, is how neatly my studies categorize all of the deaths of my companions on the journey.