Heavy-hearted in the Midwest since 2011
I feel like I’ve been fighting a cold since 2019. Allergy season has become allergy years. It seems like every other day I’ve got drainage going down the back of my throat, with the follow up feeling of wanting to just cough up whatever was draining in the first place. I’d think that maybe there […]
Read More Will We Succumb To The Fungi?Already over halfway thru January. I’m staving off those winter blues by trying to keep the creative wheels turning in my head. For the most part I’d say it’s working. If I’m not working on art I’m writing. I finished a painting on Sunday. Monday I started a collage piece that will be a mixed […]
Read More Check-In 3 : Staying Creative, Staying Engaged, and Tempering The MelancholyAs a kid I’d have a lot of the same nightmares. They’d take place in different locations, but the concept was the same which was that was my parents weren’t my parents. Somehow my mom and dad would be other beings; taken over by forces I didn’t understand or comprehend. One dream in-particular was me […]
Read More ‘Skinamarink’ And My Childhood AnxietyLondon Odense Ensemble is the music collective consisting of Jonas Munk, Jakob Skott, Tamar Osborn, Martin Rude, and Al McSween. If you’re familiar with their 2022 album Jaiyede Sessions Vol. 1, then you probably already know that. But let me fill you in or remind you of where all these cats come from. Munk, Skott, […]
Read More London Odense Ensemble : Jaiyede Sessions Vol. 2It took till I was 30-years old before I truly discovered Jeff Beck. As a kid I listened to enough classic rock stations to be familiar with his work in The Yardbirds, his solo albums with Rod Stewart(thanks to Scorsese’s Casino “I Ain’t Superstitious” will ring forever in my brain), as well as receiving this […]
Read More Jeff Beck : 1944-2023As an adult, I’ve been pretty lucky health-wise. No major issues regarding illness, disease, prescription meds. Sure, I had major back surgery in 2016. Herniated discs are no fun, let me tell you. And the fear that I’d forever walk with a serious limp was very real, but the surgery happened just a little over […]
Read More Check-In 2 : We’re No Spring ChickensWeird scenes inside the teen shredder’s mind…
Read More While My Guitar Gently ShredsI don’t care what anybody says, this up and down and up and down with the temps screws with my head. We go from sub zero temps(-30!) just a little over two weeks ago to 67 degrees yesterday, and tomorrow we’ll be back to a high of just 30 degrees. This is not normal, people. […]
Read More Check-In One : “Barometric Insanity”It’s official, we’re one year closer to whatever the universe has in store for us. At this point I want to say I won’t be surprised by anything, but usually I regret saying that because there’s typically some fresh Hell just around the corner to say “Gotcha!” I just hope that whatever comes in the […]
Read More New Year, New You, New MehWritten New Year’s Day, 2023 Yesterday I went to a funeral home and paid my respects to Mike. Mike was the father of one of my best and oldest friends, Tyson. It’s humbling and heavy at any funeral, but to be there for my best friend’s dad was a whole other level. Mike was 78 […]
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