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I sing. I write songs. I am a member of a band ! Talking to a friend earlier in the week, she reminded me: "You're not Bono ....

You heard the words earlier in the week. A piece of "spiritual advice," that you've heard before, but earlier this week, it so...

I am a liberal. Always have been. Since an early age. I live on a liberal island. On the "north shore" of Lake Michigan. Famously ...

Turns out as your biography expands, you discover there are many kinds of people. People of many varieties. You may be surprised to find tha...

I got this message. From myself. I've lately been too much of a broadcaster, like a pirate radio station, and less like a receiver, like...

If you are of an optimistic frame of mind, you work under the premise that tomorrow will be a better day than today. And you are optimistic ...

Yes. That's the kind of Monday morning question you can really sink your teeth into... "Why can't you remember your future?...

Dylan once sang... "I'll let you be in my dream, if I can be in yours..." that's the kind of world you'd like to liv...

Patti Smith's M Train... Of course, I love it. Patti is an odd duck. A William Burroughs acolyte. A poet. For sure. In the best way...

What is life like? It's pretty interesting. It's kind of like a river, right? A rushing flow of energy. Sometimes you are with the f...

When one world-class imbecile joins forces with another world-class imbecile, it all sort of makes perfect sense. A Trump/Palin political ju...

I know I've probably said this before, (Is anyone keeping track?) , but it's always best to be onto the next thing! But it's a...

I know I'm not the only person who has ever hitchhiked across the country. Ok. Maybe not across the whole country, but how about from Il...

I'm reading Patti Smith's "M Train," now. More about it later. But it's funny, before I started reading it, I was rid...

Okay. This is funny. We were in the recording studio yesterday, working on harmony parts for a new record which we hope to release sometime ...

I stole this idea from someone else. Think of your life as if it's  "evolution " - a process of growth and development . But t...

Want to talk politics this morning? Nope. Religion? Nope. Social movements? Nope. Pop culture? Nope. What about that roiling ocean of emotio...

Can you enjoy the things you should enjoy? Can you accept a win? Can you revel in a success? Or does all success, seem like an illusion? Jus...

You work towards something. You get close. You think you are there. And then a contract appears. And you read the contract, and you like the...

I must say, I was surprised by how much David Bowie's death affected me. I have been a "fan" for a long time, but I reacted...