My dog, Dini, is the Rabbit Sheriff of the Neighborhood. She loves this job more than Homer Simpson loves doughnuts and beer. It’s like ecstasy in motion. All-consuming passion. With a focus that ordinary, easily distracted, multitasking mortals like myself can only envy. Sometimes in mid-chase she gets so excited she emits little yips of [...]
Wouldn’t you buy flowers from these guys? Got to love a company with a sense of humor. Click on the photo to view in full screen and read it better. I was behind this van for a few miles on I-70 last month, on the way to a gig in St. Louis. Managed to snap [...]
Maybe it means I have the maturity of an unripe kumquat, but I’ve always loved a good practical joke. (Meaning: funny, and nobody gets hurt.) I confess I enjoy it even more when I’m the instigator. One Easter Sunday long ago, my mom played a good one on us kids. She made pancakes for breakfast, [...]
My song Love Will Come Around (co-written with Lance Cowan) was awarded the “Obelisk of Love” in the category of Personal Transformation (or as I call it, Perpetual Confusion) at the EmPower Posi Music Awards in Orlando Sunday night, January 15. My “competitors” in this category are all fabulous artists / songwriters, and good friends: [...]
As the always amusing NY Times columnist Gail Collins has pointed out with impressive regularity, Mitt Romney once drove his family to Canada for vacation with the family dog strapped to the roof of the car. This is such a bizarre visual (he’s a presidential candidate!) that my friend Bob Kroeker, attorney and cartoonist, felt [...]
We all know (hopefully) that humor is an antidote to the seriousness of life. Sometimes we forget it can also be a shock absorber for the occasionally rocky road of romance. Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. (Lynda Barry) Perhaps you’ve experienced the hormone cocktail we call “falling in love.” The feeling is [...]
We all have our “I got unceremoniously dumped” stories, and sometimes there’s more than a modicum of pain involved. Occasionally however, especially if it’s been a short-term thing, it not only doesn’t hurt too much, it can be kind of funny. As the writer Linda Barry said, “Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.” [...]
A friend’s wedding this week has lured me to Paris, France, the City of Light. Also the city of pastry, wine, espresso, chocolate, foie gras, rich sauces, and a bunch of other stuff that will kill you in America but is somehow magically good for you in France. I find myself consuming it in quantities [...]
oh beautiful creature, all feathers and wings you fill up my morning with the songs you sing that was me on the deck there just catching some rays on a glorious sunshiny Monday in May from somewhere above, high up in the air you left me a gift, i did not know you cared when [...]
Southwest Airlines is always wacky and fun, but last night they ramped it up a few notches. As we sat in the departure lounge waiting for our half-hour delayed flight from KC to Orlando, the gate agent announced on the intercom that we’d be boarding shortly. “Unfortunately,” he said, “we’re going to have to make [...]
