The Grateful Blog: Day 64: Music and Show News…

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Hey Friends… A bunch of years ago I went backpacking with my friend Nate at this place called ‘Snowgrass Flat’ up in the Goat Rocks Wilderness. It supposed to have a beautiful view but that day everything was fogged in so we not only couldn’t see the view but at some point, hiking at 6,000 feet on the Pacific Crest …

Lunch: And the Zen of SpongeBob…

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Grateful Blog: Day 63: I stopped what I was doing to eat a little lunch today and flipped on the TV. Saturday afternoon. Bland sports, mediocre movies, and mindless other Saturday afternoon stuff: my company for lunch. Then I switched over to ‘SpongeBob’. Yeah that SpongeBob, the one with the Square Pants. Plays his sponge nose like a piccolo and …

‘Deep in the heart ofTexas’…

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Grateful Blog: Day 62: I was just talking to a friend a minute ago when I realized I had 11 minutes to get my blog done. That’s how it works sometimes. It reminded me of this time I was in Austin, dancing with a young lady at the Continental Club and while doing so she grabbed y hat off my …

Delivering in the Snow: The Newspaper Boy..

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Grateful Blog: Day 61: Woke up to a layer of snow on theRose Citythat fell last night. Snow’s pretty silly here. Everyone goes crazy. The media blows it out of proportion with non-stop ‘Snowmageddon’ coverage. People blow off work when there’s 2 inches on the ground. Kids make snowmen and when they’re done the lawn is green again because they …

“Say what you mean, don’t let the words get in the way”…

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The Grateful Blog: Day 60. February 29th. Leap Year. “Leap before you look I always say. Say what you mean don’t let the words get in the way” –Crazy Love by Dan Weber. When I started this enterprise, this shot out of a cannon ‘blog’ idea I don’t think I was thinking straight. I mean who in their right mind …

Good Neighbors and Bad Garbage Cans…

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Grateful Blog: Day 59: Today I’m Grateful for my neighbors. All of ‘em. This morning my neighbor across the street, ‘Whitey’, backed up and ran over his garbage can with his Crown Victoria. Whitey’s just a shade over 80 now and his Parkinson’s, poor eyesight and sciatica/back problems are slowing him down. I ran across the street to help him …

Parenting, Playboy and a Trip to the Grocery Store…

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Grateful Blog: Day 58: I was still sick today, stuck inside listening to the radio and there was a raging debate on the school shooting inOhioand just what drives kids to do that sort of thing. I don’t know. It’s really saddening. And I have nothing to offer because it’s baffling to me and frankly I never had kids so …

American Songwriter Magazine…Lost and Found…

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Grateful Blog: Day 57: I’m sicker today than I was yesterday or Friday. Damn flu of some sort…It was a crazy week, starting with the amazing CD release show last Saturday night to the hospital tests on Tuesday to the flu and then today… Today I found out today by complete accident that my song ‘Lost and Found’ (on ‘Ash …

For the Love of Trains…

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Grateful Blog: Day 56: Still feeling the latent effects of the flu today but I managed to get out for a few hours. I had to. There was a train show in town. Basically a show devoted to model train fans and train lovers of all ages. There’s ever imaginable train related thing from toy trains to giant computerized running …

A Hug a Day keeps the…

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Grateful Blog: Day 55: I went to bed sick. I woke up sicker. It shouldn’t surprise me; it’s that time of year you know. And besides, I was in the hospital on Tuesday, surrounded my germs and God knows what else. The thing is I ALWAYS seem to get sick when stress is the worst (who doesn’t?) and usually that …