Bob Dylan

“All rivers run into the sea, and yet the sea is not full.” ~Eccles. 1:7 Many of the great books that I’ve enjoyed feature rivers. Examples include Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It, Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, Nobel Prize-winning author V.S.Naipaul’s A Bend in the River, Thomas Wolfe’s Of…

On heaven’s door. — I sigh and stretch my open arms. And push a passing cloud that hides. Knocking on heaven’s door where starlight resides The glittering diamonds in my realm Shine bright in frosty skies Far from the city lights Closer to heart’s desires. They are the lights in my cosmos. Moulded…

His political works have remained relevant for all the worst reasons. — I’ll admit that when I got the Apple News alert that John Prine had died in 2020, I had to Google his name. A child of the late 90s and early 2000s, I didn’t have the luxury of growing up in a generation known for penning iconic protest songs. …

From a guy with 17 gold and platinum records — While some of my recordings were highly regarded by peers and could and (I could argue) should have been hits, none of them was. But not so for my father. He scored 17 gold and platinum records as producer. And predictably, popsicle had a story for almost every one. Here’s…

While people who are great at things are really great at them, hence the reason we say they are great at the thing they are great at (this article gets better, I promise), they are not equally great every time they set out to do that thing. Which, to be…

“I was blind­ed by the sun for a second. This big orange sun was coming up. I was driving straight into the sun, and I looked up into it even though I remember someone telling me a long ago when I was a kid never to look straight at the…

Take pleasure wherever you are. — Today I painted clouds on my bathroom wall because lately I’ve been choosing the thing that makes me smile even if it’s work that isn’t needed or doesn’t totally make sense. I’m avoiding looking at an email I don’t want to look at. I’m afraid to even write what I’m…