Here’s a song about grassrootin’ it – personally, politically, spiritually, the whole deal. At least, that’s what I think it’s about. Do let me know if you find it to be about something else. We can discuss the matter over boiling water filtered through coffee grounds. Coffee grounds, see? From the earth. This keeps happening. […]
Hello, 2016
Hello, 2016. We’re glad you’re here. We’ve been expecting you. Don’t mind all the explosions, light shows, dropping of large glitter balls, silly hats, Pitbull performances, excessive drinking, drunken driving, and needless screams of “woooo!” I know they seem to suggest we think you’re something especially wonderful, but in fact we do that stuff for […]
New song: “Feelin’ Almost Human Again”
It seems fitting to end a year of song lyrics by sharing the one that cracked open a door to all the others. It’s no secret that songs, and songwriting, can have therapeutic effects. This song also has therapeutic origins: It arrived after a period of counseling, at a time when I was grasping the […]
Country California: What it was and what it meant
Last month, I shut down a niche music blog I’d been running for the past seven plus years called Country California. This is, I guess, kind of a postmortem: My way of encapsulating and commemorating the whole experience. What it was When I develop fascinations, I go deep. By April of 2008, I found I […]
New song: “Life at 61”
As we consider how to not be the nation with the highest incarceration rate, there’s still a lot of work to be done in finding effective ways to reintegrate those who’ve been locked up into the outside world. Freedom alone doesn’t give people who’ve served their time much of a chance if they’re “freed” with […]
New song: “You Were a Blessing in My Life”
This is a little sentimental, but I guess we all probably (hopefully) have a long line of people in our pasts worth thanking that we’ll never actually get to thank. Because we didn’t appreciate what they did for us enough at the time. Because we did appreciate it, but didn’t say so. Because we’ve lost […]
Social media is what you make it
Social media is shared space, like a town square. I try to take responsibility for my own little corner of that space. I try to fill it with flashes of humor and humanity while keeping it free of bigotry, oversharing, viral videos, memes of the moment, political propaganda, and all the other unkindnesses and trivialities […]
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