Ahmad Jamal passed away over the weekend. I don’t expect most people to know his name. I certainly didn’t. He was a jazz pianist, aged 92, and what I know about jazz now is maybe a tenth of what I knew 30 years ago when I was listening to it with a lot more frequency,… Continue reading April 18, 2023

I had a tough day that caught me off guard. Some of it wasn’t unexpected. spent the morning dealing with a “compromised” (that’s what they call it) debit card, so I went and deposited enough to cover the fraudulent loss in the meantime. The problem is it left me all day trying to fill my… Continue reading December 16, 2022

I had a pretty amazing dream last night. I’m lucky enough that I tend to remember most of my dreams, and they tend to be rather vivid. This particular dream was about writing and producing a play that was about writing and producing a play. The entire dream took place in the theater where it… Continue reading December 14, 2022

When I ran Tisane, I had the chance to hire this kid Derrick. (Forgive me if my spelling is wrong; it’s been a long time.) He was fantastic. He was full of life, period. Not just energy or vim or whatever word you want; he was so engaging that, even though he had no experience… Continue reading November 6. 2022

I did something brave and crazy today: I went to the grocery store without eating. I even doubled down and went without a list. The most shocking part is that both of those choices were by design. Like I mentioned a few weeks ago when I posted about giving my notice, grocery shopping hasn’t been… Continue reading April 5, 2022

Among everything else that scrambles my eggs, I had this subconscious expectation that when things finally get back to normal, they would be, you know, normal. Granted, living in Florida means we already exist at some inane level of abnormal on a normal basis, and we never got as unnormal as the rest of the… Continue reading August 2, 2021

I have not written a blog in so long. I hope I remember how to do it. I got talking to a friend last night via text message all because of a misunderstood text I’d sent a week earlier. We managed to figure out what I meant, and then she proceeded to open up to… Continue reading January 19, 2021

And just like that, it was autumn. There were a couple of nights last week I was able to sleep with the windows open and the A/C off, but by mid-morning, if i wasn’t already out of the house, it was getting a little too warm to be comfortable. But, just in time for today,… Continue reading September 22, 2020

A friend of mine sent me a message the other day, mention she had read my blog from April 5th and some of the thoughts in it had helped her with all of the chaos that is going on in the world around us. I decided to reread it, to see what I had said,… Continue reading July 15, 2020

I don’t think I am special or different in how I am handling this situation. I have stated before, and I still believe, that we are each individual. No matter how much alike we may be with another person – same job, same city, similar backgrounds, similar home life, etc. – we are all our… Continue reading April 5, 2020