August 3, 2025 In the entertainment industry, we often hear about the overnight success of some actor or musician who nobody’s heard of, making it in the bigtime.  While “nobody” had ever heard of the band Fun until they received their Grammy Award for: Best New Artist, in their acceptance speech, they reminded the audience…

July 27, 2025 “God, my lower back is killing me. I’m taking a ton of pain killers, which is making me drowsy, plus I’m constipated because the pain meds are interfering with my other prescriptions and the neighbor mowed his lawn at 7:30 last night!  What kind of lunatic mows the lawn at that time?”…

July 20, 2025 As the warm, white sand mingles with our toes, the sun glows upon our contented face and the ocean breeze gestures for us to linger just a few moments longer- sure it’s a lovely sensation, but that’s why we call it a vacation.  We know this is nice, but eventually we’re needing…

 July 6, 2025    Those who truly understand good music are aware that it’s all stacked upon a solid rhythm.  A songwriter might pen the lyrics or melody first and then see how they sound over a few guitar or piano chords; but even then, words that are sung need to have basic rhythmic components such…

June 29th, 2025 I once admitted to a friend of mine that “Eh, I don’t do rituals”, followed by “they kind of creep me out”.  While I cringe to this day at my narrowmindedness, to be fair, he had invited me to an annual ceremony in the woods above a small town in the mountains,…