No black no white No dark no light No big no small You want it all You go so far, you leave behind The things you like, you’ll miss them all On moving sands, you don’t sink You fly so high, we’re you gonna land? Everything, everything that you…

Things add up and a song comes along to tell you what it all adds up to. Every time I try to pin down why I wrote this and to whom I wrote it it just slips out of my grasp again and smiles. The way Shannon Elizabeth used "you" in her poems always…

I got to thinking, after the earthquake in Haiti, about how, for the 200,000 that died, the suffering was over. About how my mother's suffering will be over soon.

This is a story I've wanted to tell for a long time... EXCEPTIONS I'm gonna call this "Exceptions." Because sometimes we make exceptions. Don't you know. Exceptions. Exceptions are supposed to prove the rule, but, no, they don't prove the…

In the corner stands a guitar that plays only sad songs Give me when a friend lost his wife And this fine leather jacket came in a package The day after he took his own life In a bar down in Austin, he was drinkin' and boastin' This ring…

instrumental, not quite a finished mix

This piece is a medley consisting Aragorn (named after my chilhood hero), Continental Op ( Everyone familiar with Hammett's books knows this infamous detective) and Scienceboy... nerd or not

A dear friend of mine passed away recently. She was a school librarian, and the library was kind of like the Cheers bar. Cynthia knew everyone and knew everything going on. For some reason, people were compelled to tell her stuff! Anyway…

Made this track some years ago.

Made this approx. in the first decade of the new millenium.

This song was written for the retirement of a dear friend who was an art teacher. Her husband was already retired, and looked forward to being able to spend time with her. I wrote this from his point of view.

You know, "To be or not to be."

If you were dead my life would be simple I'd hurt and miss you like I do But the missing would be different, if you were dead If you were dead it would be all over I'd cry and write a song or two But the songs would be different, if you were…

A chapter in my bio... ONE SMALL CANDLE Key - G G D G In this old world when things go wrong D C. G We hold our women. We sing our song. D…

If this was only made up! SINCE YOU WENT AWAY Key G G Bar 7/ 6/ 5 D I lie on my back. Look up thru the leaves B C Cm The stars are still there G…