Old Enough to Know Better

I've been working on learning "Ashokan Farewell," by Jay Unger, as a solo instrumental on the ukulele.  Haven't gotten...

I started this blog eight years ago, plus about three days. The intent, was, as much as anything, to have a convenient place to work on ...

Got the cover art for the final book in the Cutter's Wars series. That's Gunny. Book is due out, I think, in January, 2015.

Only one letter is different in the two words in the title, but it makes them significantly unlike. The millstone was a large and heav...

Party for an old friend, me playing the original song  "Mold ..." I I used to be so young and free, hard to believe I kno...

Zach Oldest grandson graduated from high school today. Yay!

Youngest grandson's birthday upcoming, and his party, mostly family and a friend from school, was held early at one of those trampol...

Went to an acoustic jam at The Lehrer. I had decided I was going to step up and do a song. I picked an old Sam Cooke number, "...

Those of you who watch the TV series but haven't read the books have had some nasty surprises along the way, and I am here to tell yo...

I spent all day in court today, and it was a fascinating experience.  No, I wasn't on trial, I was on a jury. Night before, I cal...

Another gun control debate popped up on a site that I frequent, and I decided not to engage, save for a passing reference to crazy peopl...

Walked over the local Safeway for something out of which we ran. The intersection of Murray and Allen is a good way to die, so I always...

Went yesterday to an open blues/rock jam at a pub on the West Slope, twixt Beaverton and Portland, off Canyon Road, place called The Leh...

Our jam group, the Closet Musicians–and no, the name doesn't mean we came out of the closet, that's where most of us kept our inst...

At the World Horror Con in Portland this weekend, I finally met a woman writer with whom I have been corresponding for like, fourteen ye...

We did our annual visit to Marylhurst this past weekend, always a delight. There were the usual instruments: Classical, acoustic, harp- and ...

Got invited to the WHC, to do a workshop. I thought they made a mistake: You want my daughter, I said, she's the horror writer. No,...

I just listed the uke book at Amazon.com, should be live in twelve hours, so they say. Also going to be on Smashwords, which will, in t...

Above: BeBop Band - Paul Hemming, back row, right. Below: C.U. - look at the guy in the gray T-shirt, laughing like a baboon ...) ...

Draft is done on the uke book and is out to several readers with more knowledge about the subject than I. Once I get their input, I...