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REINVENTING FRIENDSHIP: MIDLIFE GUYS

July 24, 2023 by

Try reinventing friendship when your main guys move away. It happens, and it will happen more than once. You might move away, they might move away, then what? How do you break in new friends?

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MUSICAL ENDURANCE CLASS FOR THE NON-MUSICAL

February 11, 2023 by

Musical endurance means hitting the same note over and over the rest of your life. Sounds easy, right? Because it is. If you were one of the gifted, the lucky, the special, you started early and have been doing it your whole life. However, if that’s not you, play the blues in E. That’s your […]

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MUSIC GOALS: MEET THE FANS

June 1, 2022 by

Music goals come with a problem: Not everyone shares the same goals. Whether you learn music theory, go to music school, or tear it up in a garage band, the basic goals apply. Stay in rhythm, hit the leads, and sing low. And leave room for others.

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RECONNECTIVE TISSUES? WHY ARE THEY SO DAMP

October 18, 2021 by

Reconnective tissues don’t come in a container. You won’t find them in a printed square box under a ceramic cover on a toilet tank , or in a plain flat rectangle from the Kleenex company. Reconnective tissue can be a handkerchief, or a shirt sleeve. Even a shoulder, someone else’s shoulder, unless you’ve got enough […]

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GUITAR MAGIC FROM FIVE STAR GUITARS IN BEAVERTON OREGON

March 24, 2021 by

Guitar magic happens. It happens in flea markets, Craigslist, and stores when someone picks up a guitar that they can’t put down. It happens in magazines, videos, and concerts when they see new guitars, or hear a sound coming from new players and old guitars. Yesterday it happened in Five Star Guitars. Was it worthy […]

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GUITAR GLUT: CRACK THE CODE TO FIND THE SOUND

March 17, 2021 by

The guitar glut includes too many guitars and too many names. I’m looking at you, Fender. How many names can you call the same thing. It seems simple enough. To the uninitiated there are two guitars in the world: big acoustics and smaller electrics with big sound. That’s like saying there are only two metals: […]

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REAL THIRD PLACE LIVING SPACE

May 7, 2019 by

For a brief time I was an athlete with potential. I’d learned how to not get pinned in wrestling, how to lose by decision, how to win by decision, and finally how to stall to victory. It’s the last one people like referees didn’t understand. They hated it, told me to stay on the mat, […]

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