At the front of our house there is a screen door and a wood door. This afternoon I had the wood door open and the window in the screen door open to get some fresh air in the house, since it was such a beautiful… Read More
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Slant Five
Here’s a new work called Slant Five. It’s about 16X14 inches. The charcoal coloured area is panel and the yellow area is canvas. The 5 is a re-purposed object. It’s hard to tell from the photo but the 5 floats about 3/8 of an inch… Read More
Without Getting Caught or Killed
I just finished reading Tamara Saviano’s biography of Guy Clark, Without Getting Killed or Caught – the life and music of Guy Clark. Guy Clark passed away earlier this year, leaving behind a fantastic songwriting and performing legacy. I should say before writing about this… Read More
The Accountant (a brief movie review)
We trundled off to see The Accountant last evening, the new flick with Ben Affleck. This is a fun movie as long as you don’t take it too seriously. Instead, think of it as a comedy. That way you don’t have to struggle suspending your… Read More
Angeline the Baker (banjo practice)
Back in 1850, Stephen Foster published a song called Angelina Baker. Somewhere along the way it morphed into a fiddle tune known as Angeline the Baker. It’s a tune about regret: I bought Angeline a brand new dress Neither black nor brown It was the… Read More
What’s so special about train songs, anyway?
I posted some train songs earlier, as I do from time to time. The train song may be the perfect folk song genre. Trains bring you to your baby; they get you away from your baby; they take you to the Promised Land (let’s just… Read More
The Generous Forest
The Newfs jumped into the car and we drove up to the Enchanted Mushroom Forest this morning. After a dry summer with few mushrooms, the forests have been generous in recent weeks. The particular forest we headed for is an easy drive from the city,… Read More
The Fall
The 13th installment in my series of short-short stories, The Lazy Allen Stories, is now up on my stories page. It’s called The Fall. I encourage you to take a few minutes and check it out. All the stories are listed in the menu at… Read More
Victory or Death
How many bullets do you need to make a good David and Goliath flick? If the evil guy who is oppressing the poor but unskilled villagers is really, really, supremely nasty, you need truckloads of bullets. Explosives too. I’m talking about the current remake of… Read More
An unusual visitor
The doorbell rang and I headed to the front door to answer it with the dogs at my heels. We weren’t expecting anyone. It might have been the folks from the local Kingdom Hall again, or perhaps the fellow who goes door to door aerating… Read More
27th Street 