About the creation of the song in question
It seems that moving forward in life whether to a specific goal or just a better place to be is like taking a few steps forward and then getting pushed back. The pushbacks are especially hard to take when they are out of your control. That particular day a trusted friend that I thought would …
Dan and I drove down to Big Bend National Park in Texas from Austin. The first thing we did was take a picture of the sign and me. I had wanted to be comfortable, so I wore something that had nothing binding. Freedom. Knowing perfectly well that I look like an …
Many years ago, in Tulsa Oklahoma, I went to a gathering with a good friend of mine, Alan. He and I were in a local band together and for our day jobs, both of us worked in the oil industry. We were hanging around the snack table when a tall good-looking guy with a muscular …
My favorite male artists in my running-around days in the late 70s were Jackson Browne and James Taylor. There were many female artists I admired but I didn’t have a favorite until – one day when my best girlfriend Ruth LaPrade, later Ruth Cerny, and I were at her house …
Interests are like rabbits; they multiply rapidly. That’s been my problem all my life. I love doing too many things. I love performing, playing music, writing songs, writing prose, singing, reading, research, history, and on and on, ad infinitum. Too many interests. Too many rabbits. That’s all good, I’m very seldom bored, but you know …
When we look back things seem so clear and simple. Yet they were not clear and simple to us at the time. We look at who we were compared to who we are and try to understand how we got from there to here. Like so many woman, I grew up with the myths that …
During the last two years, so many things have been beyond our control that it seems we’ve been just along for the ride. It’s as if we all fell down Alice’s rabbit hole and have just now climbed our way back; some of us are still trying to make it out. Most are way …
