I just turned (mumble mumble) years old on Tuesday. A surprise came in my email the next day: an honorable mention for a song I'd entered in the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest sometime last year. And it was NOT in the…
Read moreFeb 10 2023
Feb 10 2023
I just turned (mumble mumble) years old on Tuesday. A surprise came in my email the next day: an honorable mention for a song I'd entered in the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest sometime last year. And it was NOT in the…
Read moreMay 17 2020
Finally. Finally! I finished the 10th song, the last song, the title track for the upcoming album, "Letters from Gilead." In the Hulu adaptation of "The Handmaid's Tale", the Mayday resistance movement collected letters from women suffering under Gilead's oppressive…
Read moreJan 26 2020
This is a song that was a very long time, and a very short time in the making. For the longest time - maybe a year? - the only lyrics were the line "I'm laying low, I'm laying low, I'm laying oh so low."
Read moreJan 24 2020
"...I would go along the hall and down the Marthas' stairs at the back and through the kitchen... I would hurry across the few feet of illuminated lawn...
I want to see what can be seen, of him, take him…
Read moreJan 17 2020
"'That one there, the one in green, she's a sociologist. Or was. That one was a lawyer, that one was in business, an executive position; some sort of fast-food chain or maybe it was hotels. I'm told you can have quite a good conversation with her if all you feel like is talking. They prefer it here, too.'
Read moreJan 13 2020
"Here I am in the closet. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. I can't see it in the dark but I trace the tiny scratched writing with the ends of my fingers, as if it's a code in Braille. It…
Read moreJan 12 2020
I thought I might post my songs in the "Letters from Gilead" series in the order they were written, but I'm scrapping that idea right now. Tonight, I feel like sharing my newest song, "Feels So Good to…
Read moreJan 9 2020
In the middle of last January, Dacey and I took advantage of a long weekend to escape to Douthat State Park.
I had recently finished writing "My Name is June", and was feeling the momentum of a new…
Read moreJan 8 2020
It took me awhile to get around to watching the MGM/Hulu adaptation of "The Handmaid's Tale". I had read the book by Margaret Atwood many years ago, and it had a powerful impact on me. I didn't want to watch…
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