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End-of-June

Posted on June 28, 2026

June winds down. Quick trip to Seattle to help my brother, a visit to one of my old employers, a lovely visit with my stepmom and her husband, World Cup fans, etc. On a quick trip to Seattle to help my brother with another eye surgery, I stopped at the Pike Place Market. There were many World Cup fans. My first trip was on a school field trip when I was 14 years old. A memory I had while on this trip was that an elderly woman came up to me and asked if my money was dirty. I was 14, and I had no clue what she was talking about. The market then was as interesting a place as it is now though.…

In the age of the stream . . .

Posted on June 2, 2026

There are “album listening sessions,” which is pretty cool. I have this image of a darkened room, pot smoke hanging in the air, plush cushions around and people with long hair and beards sitting around listening to an album, A side and then B side. Reminds me of the ’70s perhaps? And . . . once again, Review Week, where the print shop prints so many posters for pin-ups around the College of Design. The student employees that I have and work with are just *so good.* It is the color to the day and the light in the room; their humor, tenacity, professionalism – it all just shines and I am always grateful. <nowlistening>You Are The Everything – Redbird version</nowlistening> BYOV (I think?).…

Tonight I’ll sing my songs again, I’ll play the game and pretend . . .

Posted on May 29, 2026

The impetus for this trip was because of an off-handed comment I made to my friend Kurt. I said that I’d sure like to see Paul Simon someday, but that I knew he was getting older, too. I figured that it likely would not happen. Well, Kurt offered to take me to see him. In Copenhagen, Denmark. I just had to get there. So I went. This is the final post of the trip. It was a lovely 9 days in Scandinavia and hopefully not my last trip there. Taking the “bridge” & tunnel from Malmo to Copenhagen. Some good old “leading lines,” as my high-school photography teacher would have said. I always find it strange to drive under the water. After we arrived…

Evidence of participation & old friends

Posted on November 9, 2025

I ran in the Silver Falls Half Marathon last weekend and a photo shows evidence of participation. Plus last night we went to a lovely house concert with our long time and former teaching pal, Tom Rawson and his wife, Ellen van der Hoeven. Look – it’s a couple of bald fellas! The cool thing about this race is you get to run behind two waterfalls in the canyon. The race was fun, save for the yellowjacket sting on my elbow . . .but even that wasn’t that bad . . . Bald is beautiful. Tom is a lovely guy, and a classic folk musician.

JF, EK & The Good Rain

Posted on October 27, 2025

Friday evening Jeffrey Foucault and his pal Erik Koskinen came to town to play a show. They were joined on drums by JT Bates and the show was fantastic. As it always is. Erik played a baritone guitar to add some low notes to the set. For those playing at home, the tuning on this is: B-E-A-D-F#-B, which is a fourth lower than a standard guitar tuning. It’s always fun watching the musicians communicate and banter wordlessly with each other throughout the set as well. Plus a run in the good rain. It’s back. Fills me up! Starting out one of Jeffrey’s songs . . . . there is often laughter involved . . . On the bridge that goes over the Willamette River,…