My friend Jeff from Sebastopol gave me the bad news last night.
Upper Fourth is closed.
For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, Upper Fourth is, or rather, was a beautiful, classy bar in Santa Rosa that offered adults the perfect place to meet, have a drink, talk quietly, laugh loudly and listen [...]

I wrote this post while in New York City last week. I never finished it, so I’m posting it now.
It’s the simple things that feel so empowering to me now.
Like knowing that if there’s a subway entrance for the 1 train going downtown on one side of the street, chances are the train going [...]

Oh, New York, New York! What have you done to me?
I’ve been back home for over a week now. What a wildly wicked and wonderful trip! It changed my life and then changed it back again. It lifted me up, twirled me around and then threw me to the curb… and I’m just now finding [...]

There were moments last night when my singing truly sucked.
I remember each of those moments vividly. The last note of “It’s Only Love.” The high phrase near the end of “I’ve Just Seen a Face.” The Ab in “Don’t Blame Me.”
AND there were moments last night when I never sang better. Actually, there were whole [...]

Hillary didn’t make it. She gave it everything she had, and still, she had to concede.
When she gave her concession speech on Saturday, I could feel her
sadness, her disappointment. Or what I imagined she must be feeling.
Because who hasn’t known the sadness that comes when you fall  short of
your goal. The deep disappointment you [...]