Writing old-school with notepad and pencil and peppermint brew at a tea bar. Kind of like the feeling. Continue reading

We could be less than a month away from NASA’s human mission to the Moon for the first time since December 1972. Some of my earliest memories are watching a late Apollo mission on TV. You better believe I’m going to dig this so much when it actually happens, which I highly doubt will be… Continue reading

Every Jan. 1, the first song I hear every year is Artie Shaw’s “Begin the Beguine.” It’s a habit I picked up long ago, the early ’90s, when I found an Artie Shaw LP in my grandfather’s possessions headed out to the trash 20 years after he died. Cole Porter. Artie Shaw. What better way… Continue reading