Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

With the dawning of a new year, I look back on the past one with a sense of wonder. I suppose that’s not uncommon, but 2024 was as rewarding as it was challenging. Ten weeks into the year, I experienced a bout of vertigo that left me lying in a darkened room...

Happy Holidays!

I posted this seven years ago and again in 2022. Here’s to a year when it no longer seems so pertinent. “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”...
The Life of Chris

The Life of Chris

The first time I remember seeing Chris Griffin, he and a friend were making their way up a snowy path in Bear Valley, California as they headed to the same potluck my friend, Pam Jamison, and I were attending. The tall, mustached redhead held a two-pound package of...