Why fight it? Why try to make it other than it is?
Since I’ve been in New York I wake up around 7:00 or 8:00 am. And it bugs me. That feels late to me. When I was in California, I used to get up around 6:00 am at the latest. I used to always wake [...]

“I rent a room and I fill the spaces with wood in places
To make it feel like home…. but all I feel’s alone.”
I hate it when you’re winding down from a long week with a beer and a conversation with a dear friend and truth sneaks in and smacks you up side the face leaving [...]

I have a friend who’s a songwriter. A damned good songwriter.
And sometimes, not always, when he’s working on a song, he catches fire.
The creative spark, lit by a riff, a snippet of melody, a chord progression starts burning, and he becomes consumed in a creative blaze. The song, as it emerges, overtakes him. He can’t [...]

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 [...]

I just got a new iPhone.
And I love it. Especially the camera! I’ve never had a camera in my phone before, so this is extra special for me.
Here are a few photos I took today, with my iPhone, as I walked around New York City.
Mostly sky and subways.

I now live between two bridges.
Which feels strangely symbolic… somehow.
I took a long walk in the most luscious Spring afternoon today and took this photo: the view from one of the bridges I live between.
So I’m here. I’m moved in. Mostly. And starting to get my bearings and feel more at home in this city [...]

I’ve been here 11 days. Or is it 12? No, 11.
And the moving van will be here in an hour. Or so they say.
I’ve moved to New York. Upstate New York. About 2 hours north of my new love, New York City. Why am I living here instead of IN the City? Money, mostly. Can’t [...]

Oh, yeah, BABY!
This Diva is moving across this big, wide, huge country, from one coast to the other, to New York.
Oh, come on! You knew it was coming. I’ve been talking about my Big City fever. And how little, lovely, sleepy Santa Rosa and my home town of Sebastopol has been feeling… well, very, very [...]

This post is the third installment of a series on “Music Success in Nine Weeks” — a book by Ariel Hyatt, President of Ariel Publicity and CyberPR, which specializes in getting musicians maximum exposure online.
As soon as you tell someone you’re a singer, they will often ask, “Oh, really? What kind of singer are you?” [...]

It happened on the corner of 4th & Mendocino Ave.
I was standing there, waiting for the light to turn so I could cross the street. And the thought came. “This place is too small for me now. I can’t stay here.”
Santa Rosa, CA, is a small city as cities go. I live in an even [...]