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Monday: Me and the Devil, and Mona Lisa

Since coming off the road last month I’ve been going through mounds of paper, (which seem to reproduce when I’m not looking)–filing, throwing away. (There are three boxes at my feet: one for 2012, 2013, and 2014.) Finishing up 2012 income taxes, so I can start having fun all over again with 2013. When you […]

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Fifteen days in–

Happy new year, everyone. If you’re reading this then you survived the holidays, physically at least. For this alone we should feel lucky. My year started with a bang; well, actually a 10-show solo tour, which doesn’t resemble anything like a bang. It added up to a very long way home, working my way back […]

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Ho ho ho and all that stuff/free shipping upgrade/etc

Season’s greetings from a frantic time and place–so much to do, so little time. I’m sure you’re feeling it, too: time, if seen metaphorically as a level floor you’re walking on, has suddenly taken on a sharp downward angle, and you, still in sock-feet, go sliding out of control faster than you thought was possible, […]

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Photo by Roger Feldhans.

Top Left to Bottom Right

When I was a kid, my great-grandmother hung a calendar on her wall, a decorative-flowery-grandmotherly sort of thing printed on cloth, for which year I don’t remember, with the months divided into four rows of three columns: January upper left corner, December bottom right. Because of my memory of that calendar, I’ve visualized the year […]

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