Old Enough to Know Better

Got asked by somebody about what kind of gun they should get. Here is the long answer: So, if you somehow feel the desire or need fo...

Years ago, here in Oregon, there was a terrible event: A young mother, out driving with her children in Springfield, saw a curly-haired ...

I was raised from the age of two to thirteen in Baton Rouge, in a middle-class neighborhood called Brookstown. Small houses, mostly b...

Mary Jane Blues (12-bar blues, in D)  1. D Oh, the bugs ate my marijuana plant, they ate her right down to the ground/  A     ...

Double Entendre Blues  E/E7                                         Well, my woman drives a pickup, drives a pickup, drive...

Knew a guy once was a consummate liar. A master of mendacity; a primo prevaricator; a man, who, in the words of the old saying, would ...

Having been pressed into service to pick up one of the grandsons from high school this week, I had occasion to be parked in my car in t...

Because low humidity can cause damage to wooden musical instruments, and because we had an especially hot and dry summer, and winter ...

Back in the day, when I first started learning how to play guitar, fifty-some years ago, there was a subset of folk music called “protes...

Somewhen about 1977 or so, I joined the writer's organization, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, SFWA. Thirty-eigh...

There is a cliche in martial arts, that of the perfect student. Been done forever, and here's the basic version: A young person, boy...

Sunday Concert Schedule Went to the show at Marylhurst as we usually do, and if you were local and you skipped it, you missed a gr...

Hey, check out Mike Byers' new toy, a homemade lap-steel guitar: Sound sample here. Way cool ...

So, I am about to finish the copy-edit on the current book-in-progress, Stemwinder: An Urban Fantasy in 4/4 Time. Probably the subtitle ...