In 1977, I was a sixteen-year old kid in high school, a dedicated “wanna-be” musician. I had been playing guitar and bass for a whopping three years. Besides playing at church, and a brief stint as the clueless bassist in…Read more

It is an odd thing, the leaps memory makes when triggered… So many horrible images of the devastation in Texas and along the Gulf Coast, aftereffects of massive winds and waves from Tropical Storm Harvey. Prayers for the lives lost…Read more

When my dad retired from the Army, we moved from Ft. Benning, GA to Center Point, AL (a suburb on the NE side of Birmingham) where he opened a barber shop and cut hair and held court with his friends…Read more

Here I sit In the silence and abandon Asking no more questions Expecting no more answers Where is the push? Where is the prize? This is the reward For a hope that dies In the silence and abandon Here I…Read more

It has been a quiet Holy Week. Tomorrow the Christian world will sing and shout praise to God made Man and Resurrected, and the incredible story of the sacrifice of the Father and the love of the Son willing to…Read more

I am Lazarus bound and waiting A blind man wrapped in chains Shorn of broken dreams and dignity In the desert I’m left to wander Cold nights and burning days Longing for the sound of melody And looking for the…Read more

You wake up with a mild sense of dislocation, for a moment wondering where you are and when you are. Loss today takes on a new meaning that’s all too familiar; at a loss for words. With that slightly unbalanced…Read more

After 55 plus years, the shadow cast by life is growing long (and seemingly longer every day). New is a word rarely if ever you apply to yourself. July 2009 found me on the road in the Midwest with a…Read more