‘Pay it Forward’: Cracking the Egg…

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Grateful Blog: Day 89: A few years ago when I first started performing as a musician I took my songs out of the basement and into the light as it were. In retrospect, the light was not kind to some of those early songs. But the rest of my life changed in ways I had no idea it was going …

A Little less Sugar…

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Grateful Blog: Day 86: Bert Sugar died yesterday. Bert Randolph Sugar was known as “The Greatest Boxing Writer of the 20th Century”, as well as “one of the foremost historians alive,” and was elected to the International Boxing Hall in January 2005. Bert was one of those larger than life characters. He wore a fedora, smoked a cigar, rolled with the …

Doverlaff House Concerts: ‘The Church of Song’

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Grateful Blog: Day 85: (Part 2) Continued… After yesterday’s Talent Show, I finished up my set list for the 2nd Official CD release show for ‘Ash and Bone’ and got ready for the show. The show was part of the Doverlaff House Concert series. It’s becoming legendary in the Portland area one epic show and fabulous artist at a time. …

The ‘Talent’ Show…

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Grateful Blog: Day 84: (Part 1) I missed yesterday’s ‘Grateful Blog’. Actually that’s incorrect. I didn’t miss it so much as I lived it. I went to be early Friday night only to wake up Saturday morning at 4am and while tired and still 16 hours from my 2nd Official CD release show for ‘Ash and Bone’, I had a …

The OTHER ‘George Zimmerman’…

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Grateful Blog: Day 83: His name is ALL over the news. ‘George Zimmerman’. If you’ve been out of the country or out in a cabin inMontanawith no electricity or a newspaper he’s the guy who shot a young black teenager inFloridathe other day. The teenager, Trayvon Martin was apparently wearing a ‘hoodie’ and in some bizarre act of vigilantism, some …

What’s in a Name??? More than I thought…

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Grateful Blog: Day 82: I’ve know this for a while. My whole lifetime actually. My last name is ‘Weber’. I often joke to people when I tell them ‘It’s like the grill’ so they spell it with one ‘b’ instead of 2. The ironic part is that despite being named ‘Weber’ and owning 2 grills of the same name; I …

Let the Mystery Be: The search for Amelia Earhart goes on…

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Grateful Blog: Day 81: I read in the paper this morning that there’s a new expedition in the South Pacific looking for clues of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance, which happened 75 years ago. I’m too young to have grown up with Amelia Earhart but her flight and subsequent disappearance are legendary. Somewhere on July 2nd 1937, after leaving New Guinea her …