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Update [022510]:
In recent months I've been working on other projects, such as helping my wife with her blog, Anne's Vegetarian Kitchen, and trying my hand at article writing/interviewing. One such article was recently publish in Just Jazz Guitar magazine and can be downloaded (PDF) here.

And now back to your regularly scheduled program:

Sometimes I need to get things off my chest... other times I write things down so I don't forget them. This blog is a collection of my stories, experiences, and my perspective. I don't consider myself a writer, just a guy whose life has made some interesting turns and figures there might be someone out there who will find my tales of interest.

• The Decemberists... in May
  
  Friday, July 17, 2009
  About 6 months ago someone gave me a copy of the three 2008 Decemberists EPs, Always The Bridesmaid: Volumes I, II, and III. The Decemberists were by no means a new band to me...
  
  

• Open Mic Handbook (aka Open Mics for Dummies)
  
  Tuesday, December 2, 2008
  Okay, if you're reading this, it's a good bet you've been thinking about taking your act on the road... or at least down the street, to your favorite café's Open Mic...
  
  

• Mouthing Off
  
  Tuesday, December 2, 2008
  For most of my adult life I've had the extraordinary ability to accurately figure out a person on the first meeting. My first impressions are rarely found to be wrong....
  
  

• August Rush
  
  Monday, September 1, 2008
  August is the busiest month of the year... at least for me. You start the month off deep into summer without a care in the world...
  
  

• 1976
  
  Monday, February 4, 2008
  My early childhood was filled with endless days of unsupervised bliss in the ravines of Waukegan, Illinois, 40 miles north of Downtown Chicago...

• I See God
  
  Sunday, October 7, 2007
  I'd like to think that in 41 years I have come to grips with many of life's inexplicable mysteries. Not that I've discovered a cure for cancer...

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