What’s the point of a blog if I never post?
[Read more…]RIP, Dan
I’ve lost a colleague and, more importantly, a friend.
[Read more…]Color of the pen (a song!)
I plan to write about the process of recording Color of the Pen, much as I did in an earlier post about my previous song, Josie, but I’m drowning near the end of a semester. Someone asked for the lyrics, though, so I figured that shouldn’t take as long as a full post.
[Read more…]What I missed on my low-iodine diet
My stint with a low-iodine diet, in preparation for the radiated iodine therapy, was fine, though I really missed two things: ice cream and hot sauce. (Not at the same time….)
[Read more…]Hydration and isolation
It’s official: I am dangerously radioactive.
[Read more…]Entering phase two: radioactive!
In “Good Luck and Cancer,” I wrote that my stint with cancer had lasted only three months from discovery to recovery. It turns out that this was a bit optimistic — though, I hope, not by much.
[Read more…]Sixty
Generally, I haven’t been too fazed by birthdays ending with a zero. 30, 40, even 50 didn’t feel that different from other years. But there’s something equal parts weird and mundane about turning 60.
[Read more…]Columbo and multi-generational nostalgia
A couple weeks ago, a couple weeks before his sixteenth birthday, the Younger told me that he’s recently been on a “nostalgia kick.”
[Read more…]Thoughts on prayers
Sometimes I just don’t know what to say.
[Read more…]Josie (a song!)
In the early ’80s, I got my hands on my first multi-track recorder: a Teac 4-channel reel-to-reel tape recorder.
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