What to say, except that my brother was kind of a force of nature. Seems much to soon to say was, and it is, as he was 59 years old when he passed away this week. A little over two…

1/31/2025

So. I’m working on this album, a familiar process for me, though this one - probably for a number of reasons - feels a little bit supercharged with creativity. I attribute that to a few things: one, I’ve been…

11/7/2024

I’ve known this for a while, but facebook is a corrupted ecosystem for sharing information. On election day I posted an Emma Lazarus quote, which got a whopping 27 interactions. Changed my photo and put a frame that said…

8/28/2020

One of the things I love about riding the bike trail is that throughout the summer each flower, bird and insect has it’s time. Early in the season it’s the red-winged blackbird whose cryptic, twirling cries announce the beginning…

May 10th, 2020.
 

When I was maybe 9 or 10 years old, my family had just moved to a new neighborhood just outside of Toronto. We were riding Big Wheels (google it) down an asphalt path on a summer day…

April 12, 2017

If death is certain, and the time of death is uncertain, what is important, If death is certain, and the time of death is uncertain, what is important, If death is certain, and the time of death…

February 5, 2017. 

Yesterday was one of those sunny winter days, just pushing 30 degrees, where you feel this gentle hope and the optimism to tackle things you’ve been putting off. Like vacuuming the car you took on tour back…

January 22, 2017. 

Like many of us, I had heard about the Women’s March on Washington this past weekend and about all the sister marches taking place simultaneously around the country. One of those sister marches was happening in the…

November 28, 2016.

My mother is from Belfast, and superstitious in the way that Irish Catholics can be - a belief in the supernatural that comes from the marriage of religion with a culture whose heritage is rich with mysticism…

November 10, 2016.

Yesterday, like many others, I woke up afraid. I was staying in a hotel 45 minutes outside of Pittsburgh and had seen a lot of Trump signs on the way there from Connecticut. I saw a woman…