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Lake Tahoe Sketchbook
I love mountains and I love lakes. Last week, I got to spend a few days at a lake that was higher in the mountains than any lake I’d ever seen. Lake Tahoe is 6,000 feet in elevation. The mountains surrounding it rise another 3,000 feet and are still capped with snow in July. The Read more
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Third Time’s The Charm
They say the third time is the charm and I certainly feel like I’m leading a charmed life lately, especially since I found out a third song of mine is going to be played on WFUV this Thursday, July 3, at noon. My most recent song, My Pillow, will be coming your way on a Read more
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Thinking of her
Today I am thinking about the woman who brought me into this world. Six years ago today she baked the last birthday cake of her life for me. I also thinking of all the birthdays I spent with her on this, my first birthday without her. Thanks, Mom. Read more
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S2L: My Pillow
I thoughtThe Arms of Heaven was going to be the closing song for my latest album until My Pillow came along. The exquisite string work of Luke Cissell cemented this track in my mind as the perfect final word on Surrender to Love. In 1986, I moved with my love to our first love nest: Read more
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Father’s Day 2025
My dad was the kind of man who liked to make people’s dreams come true. One day, I came home from school to find him sitting on my bed plucking the strings of a red guitar, each pluck accompanied by a word: My. Dog. Has. Fleas. I must have been 13 or 14 and he Read more
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If That’s Not Nice
In your light I learn how to love In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art. – Rumi Here are two pictures of me with the love of my life. One is the first picture of Read more
Words & Music 