When you start to go bald, you face yourself squarely. You didn't cause it, you didn't earn it. It is not retribution or karma. It i...

Okay, so you've just graduated with a bachelors degree. You studied music theory and composition. You've somehow got to make some mo...

Take a tip from the pros - if you're planning a wedding, get the wedding music that hard-core wedding afficianados get - Music by Gunnar...

I was in the drugstore a few weeks ago, picking up a prescription. While I was waiting a young pharmacist, a guy in his early 20's, was ...

School year started. Man, oh, man, I had no idea the world worked on some kind of schedule. Oh, sure, I was once a kid, I remember the long ...

I was at home with Q last Sunday when the phone rang. It was M, our wife and mother and fun companion. She'd found these beautiful Mongo...

Here's how it all started. My son, Q, is fascinated by all things mechanical. He has a book in the ISpy series in which there's a pi...

Novelty songs. I generally don't like them. Yet I do like humor in music. Obviously. (see " The Bobs " or my family music) Bu...

Some songs just don't go away. Even when it seems like they should. Even when every fibre of my being screams that a song is no good, I ...

A couple years ago I was in New York and went to Little, Brown & Co. to meet, for the first time, my editor for the book of "Old Mr...

There's a novelist whose invention and soul and style I am so in love with: Haruki Murakami. His is the kind of writing that I'd lik...

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The Listening Years... Up until February of 1964 (when I was 7), music just didn't really mean much to me. On that particular night, we...

A recent search on Youtube unearthed some interesting uses for my music. None of them with my blessing, so don't think I had anything t...

"It's also a great Axe grinder!" Here's my idea. Some kind of huge pedal-powered flywheel. I mean huge. 6 feet in diamet...