Family. To belatedly celebrate my eldest brother’s September birthday, we traveled to our home town in October, where Cleveland cousins hospitalized, I mean …

It’s hard to believe I’ve been living on the California coast for eighteen years. Even harder to believe that in that time, I’d …

Lately I’ve been questioning my obsession with live music. It seems to be getting worse. What is wrong with me? Where did it …

“It’s a little sappy,” rasped Macker when I read my post dedicated to him. An honest yet unexpected response, I burst out laughing. …

The other night, I received a text from the daughter of a dear Santa Barbara friend (one of the few readers of this …

“You have to go, it’s a historic event.” In three weeks, the band Genesis would be playing its last show ever and my …

On the day I was to check in the the Kauai Writer’s Retreat, I received an email: “Due to unforeseen circumstances, the event …