When should I hold on to a belief and when should I let it go? Sometime ago, I wrote a song about relationships called “Holding On.” At the time, I was witnessing some love-starved marriages where the couples were isolated from one another. It seemed to me that they were holding on to something that …
Warning: if you are a human, you may find something objectionable in this post. Oh, well. The journey to authentic manhood is a long and difficult one. I started in earnest around age 40 and I’m beginning to think and feel that the end of the really painful part is coming soon. I’ll be 61 …
What a wonderful, absolutely unpredictable Adventure life can be. One moment, we’re drowning in a viscous whirlpool and hoping the end comes soon. In the next moment we’re enjoying a lazy backstroke in a beautiful mountain lake feeling grateful to be alive. Yikes! On Saturday, the coin flip said “heads” and I could not have …
It took awhile, but I finally figured it out. The reason I’ve been so anxious, confused and losing sleep is because my life is changing…for the better. This is referred to as “fear of success,” and it’s every bit as scary as fear of failure. Fear of failure is thinking I’ll hit a wrong chord …
In all of pop music no one impressed or moved me more than the late Burt Bacharach who died this past Wednesday at age 94. There have been others (Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Van Morrison, Paul Simon, for example) whose individual songs have rivaled Bacharach’s, but none moved me or surprised me more than …
Despite two consecutive poor night’s sleep, the songs we started writing with 4th graders this week are off to a great start. For example, we’re penning a song called “Kindness in Action” and another called “We Are the Dream” about MLK. Good stuff. Sitting in my hotel room this morning, I felt so tired that …
I am happy to report that Steph has landed safely in Sullivan County. She barreled across the country in three days. Ah, youth! We were able to spend less than 24 hours before we had to leave for gigs in Westchester and Long Island. Our reunion was brief but sweet. We will return on Tuesday …
We’ve had a mild winter in the Catskills of New York – until yesterday! The temperature is dipping below zero and with the wind chill it is between -17 and -23 degrees. Brrrrr! To our dismay, Steph slept in her van last night somewhere in PA. Yikes! She has two “zero blankets,” but that doesn’t …
Listening to NPR, today, we heard teachers discuss the worsening state of students’ academic performance and behavior problems due to the pandemic. One teacher in Maine spoke of her four-year-old preschoolers who are not only oppositional, but they “curse like sailors and pirates, too.” This is a crisis and we plan to do what we …
I was once asked, “is your blog a form of therapy?” Today, another person wrote me saying, “I wish it were (a) less frequent and (b) more about what’s going on in your world and the wide world, and less about you.” I also received this comment, today… “Your thoughts actually bring up for me …