My First Love Song

My First Love Song

I wrote my first love song when I was 13 or 14. It wasn’t my first song – which was from my musical “When Nights were Bold, ” when I was 12.  But this song was different.  It was personal. I was in love with Freddie Stewart.  I followed him...
My Mother’s Mexican Hat

My Mother’s Mexican Hat

NOTE: This story includes an audio file related to the story – if you want to listen while you’re reading, here’s the song: My parents were divorced when I was very young and my mother and I went to live with my Aunt. Aftrer a year or so the three of...
My First Kiss

My First Kiss

This is a story I wrote out in 1996 when my local NPR station challenged listeners to write in about their first kiss. This was mine — read on the air Feb. 14, 1996.   I lived in North Carolina.  He lived in California. When I met him, I was visiting my...
What’s in a Name?

What’s in a Name?

  This is part of my ongoing “Wired for Love” blog project of love stories and songs. This is a blog from February 2011 about trying to find a name for my Valentine’s music project.  To buy the “Wired for Love” download collection of fun, funky, romantic...
The Taste of Romance

The Taste of Romance

  There were two especially romantic dinners I had with Jonathan.  And both in places that subsequently disappeared.  As did the romance with Jonathan.  But the memories are still sweet. The first was in the gutted-out space that would eventually be his studio....

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