It’s amazing how memories of a book that you read can become heavily associated with the place or places where you read it. I thought it’d be fun to make a short list of some of the books I’ve read that have strong ties to places and moments in my history and memory. “An...
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I’ve been re-reading one of the earliest books I remember cracking open and really loving, and one of the books that got me really into reading for the first time- Chaim Potok’s “The Chosen”. The book’s main theme? A couple of religious young men fight to maintain lives of faith while also trying to...
Read more →It’s been a weird week this week as I can see I am sliding into another pool of sadness. I think I deal with this each year around the holidays because I feel a strong sense of being alone during this month and some. Today the melancholy is registering more tangibly. I know some...
Read more →When I started high school, I was a kid in transition. I was growing at odd intervals. My acne ebbed and receded like waves on a beach. I was in a lot of activities, and I was pretty anonymous in all of them. And I was adrift socially (as I have often been since)....
Read more →A favorite version of this tune.
Read more →Today was a pretty decent day, although the middle of it was less constructive than I hoped it would be. Oh well. It started with a loop around the Loop with my jogging buddy, Kurt. With a month of lay off from getting out there, we had a decent time for covering the corse....
Read more →Today is the one year anniversary of losing my relationship with G. Though we did meet and talk once a few weeks ago about the last year, I still never got any clear answers about why I was released, why I wasn’t worth keeping around, why I was just let go. Today, my feelings...
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My original foray into smooth jazz started with a sampling of much of the exemplary music by saxophonist Dave Koz. Koz set the bar in jazz for me. With the help of Pandora listening, I’ve picked up some new jazz artist favorites over time. Along with Koz, Chris Botti stepped up as the man...
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This song has remained in my head over the last few days after hearing it this weekend. I fail, I falter, and yet He is always present to draw me close to His heart. A suitable song of praise for today.
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When I was in high school, Chris Payton, my musical taste mentor, turned me on to the Sacramento-based band Bourgeois Tagg, which was piloted by Brent Bourgeois and Larry Tagg. Bourgeois Tagg was popular for quite a while in Sacramento, L.A., and southern California before it had a few songs hit the national charts....
Read more →When I was in junior high and early high school, I was, well, like I was in elementary school: pretty quiet, pretty awkward around lots of kids, and pretty unsure of where I fit in with people. I was pretty fortunate to be raised in a family where my folks let us try a...
Read more →If you want to know love, you must stand in the center of truth and be who you are, where you are, in life with others. It is only when the true me interacts with the true you that we can find a basis to trust each other, respect each other, and love each...
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I was fortunate enough to be able to get away with my brother this last weekend for a pretty stellar 24 hours of river time in northern New Mexico. My brother is usually pretty busy with soccer activities on Saturdays (3 kids, all playing), but we found a window that worked, and his wife...
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One of my favorite rockier groups from the ’80’s. I was pretty much a Christian radio kid growing up, and Idle Cure put some edge into the schmaltzy AOR I subscribed to. As always, my friend Chris Payton paved the way for my evolving musical tastes for most of those years. Fist bump, dude....
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After just realizing who these guys were, today the news breaks that they are discontinuing their current tour, and face an uncertain future. Relationships. Sometimes so tenuous.
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