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AMATEUR CRIME LIFE WITH PEER PRESSURE

My life in amateur crime began in 5th grade. If you were going to hang with the cool kids, you had to show you belonged. One test was shoplifting at the local Payless. It was an anchor store at Pony Village, the biggest shopping mall on the west coast between Seattle and San Francisco right […]

DECADE ENDS IN SOFT TALK, HARD TRUTHS

    Me: This decade ends the best of times and worst of times. Them: Did you just make that up, or are you finally going to admit to stealing from Charles Dickens? Me: Writers don’t steal, they borrow. Them: Like the time you borrowed a notebook from Payless in Pony Village?

TIME TRAVEL WITH GUITARS TUNED GOOD AND FIRM WOMEN

        Time travel with music happens every second of every day. A song comes across the waves and we’re back in the day we first heard it from the first beat onward.   Unfortunately I never hear the first song I ever played on a guitar.   Down In The Valley isn’t […]