Tendrils of intention pull me sideways. I am not the person you see sitting here at my desk. I am just to the right. Always the right. I never seem to float to the left. Float isn’t quite the word for it either. More like a drifting, really. I tend to drift. My report [...]
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Lucid
I’m jumping. I’m jumping over snakes, and doing my best not to land on any. Not because I’m scared of getting bitten, but because I’m scared of killing one. I’m jumping high, and with every jump I feel the time stretch out in front of me. I pull at it with my will, and I [...]
Love Rears Its Ugly Head
This is from a while ago, and I’m not sure why I never posted it. But after six weeks of being in a cast I’m finally playing again. So I’ll record something new soon in the new studio space. Still a bit boomy because I haven’t done much soundproofing yet, but we’ll see how it [...]
Latchkey Kid
Roughhousing on the playground, someone pulled at the rawhide cord around my neck and the knot came loose. The key clattered onto the asphalt four-square court just next to the tether-ball pole. “Hey Frankenstein, why you got a key around your neck?” A tomboy named Karen was squinting at me. “I use it to [...]
Titans
Simply put, I am enormous tonight. Anyone nearby would have to see it. Conspicuously huge. Understand I’m not speaking of mass, but of energy. There’s a very real sensation of touching the sides of the street as my bus careens along, scraping the awnings of shops closing for the day. The man walking his dog, [...]
Creating Space
You don’t need to have a studio in order to create something. I have done some of my best writing in a diner while eating a bowl of clam chowder. But I do find it helpful to have a place where I can close the door and lose myself in cutting foamboard, or painting, [...]
Baby Steps
Winter is generally the time when I hunker down in some corner of the house to bang away at a project, because it’s too cold to go outside. This winter so far, I’ve done almost none of that, because I’ve been moving our stuff downstairs and trying to put things together in our house. That, [...]
Graveyard Bits
I did a bit of guest blogging for The Cultural Purveyor, and it’s posted today. Just a few stories involving dorkery, cemeteries, and the search for Resurrection Mary. It’s called Whistling Through the Graveyard. Here’s a taste: She called and said, “Wanna go to Hell?” “Sounds good. Bring snacks.” I said. The road to Hell had [...]
Think About Your Troubles
I’ve been playing my ukulele a lot lately, and doing some writing on it too, which is an unusual thing, as I’m pretty much a ‘sit down at the piano and plunk out chords’ kind of songwriter. So to learn chord progressions and then try to write melodies for them is a different way of [...]
Pop-Pop’s Crab Pots
I just read a thread on Reddit that was praising the virtue of the tasty Alaskan King Crab, and I sat there shaking my head. I’ve had it. It’s tasty, to be sure. but anyone who’s had King Crab, and even one Maryland Blue Crab wouldn’t for a second choose the huge claws of the [...]
