How I met my mother

How I met my mother

This is my annual Mother’s Day posted, originally posted May 14, 2017 and updated each year. This is a special Mother’s Day message – and a question: Where is your mother in you, now? This picture is my mother and me when I was little.  My biggest...
How My Dad Sang at His Own Funeral

How My Dad Sang at His Own Funeral

I share this photo and rewrite this blogpost every Father’s Day.  It’s one of the only pictures I have of me and my Dad, and it’s on the day of his second wedding. Decades later, I would accompany my father as he sang at his own funeral – and...
A Look at my Dating Photos

A Look at my Dating Photos

Now that I’m dating … or at least visiting a couple dating apps daily, I have a whole new area of discomfort to enjoy in my life.  Today I shared my dating photos with a new member of my team, Nyx.  In the interest of making myself even more uncomfortable,...
Music is Connection

Music is Connection

When I grew up, music was a huge part of my life but I never listened to records or went to concerts. It was all live.  It all happened in my home – or my relatives’ homes – most of it spontaneous — and it ran the gamut from us playing ukes and...
Where’s My Cowboy Now?

Where’s My Cowboy Now?

We went down the driveway to the main road to throw rocks at cars.  I remember it as the day of my Grandfather’s funeral.  My good buddy Stephen Holmes was visiting. We were about 4 or 5, I guess, and we’d been told to get out of the house.  So we went to...
Headless Venus

Headless Venus

She was my 5th or 6th grade project for history and social studies. I waited ‘til the night before the project was due. Not avoiding it – just obsessing over it.  We were studying ancient Greece and Rome. Finally I took my mother’s Venus, the eight-inch statue...

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