I first began writing songs in the winter of 1971 while I was lving in my hometown of Marburg an der Lahn, in Germany. I had spent the...

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time...

I just bought a ticket to a Twins post-season playoff game. It cost me the whopping amount of $81.50, but I think it will be well worth...

You arrive at the coffeehouse around 6 p.m. with your banjo and harmonica in hand. It's a Wednesday night and Open Mic night. You...

As long as I can remember, I’ve always been a deeply spiritual person. As a child in Germany, I was very pious. I recall how important my...

The earliest times I remember being recognized was in third and fourth grades when I received gold and silver stars for homework well...

I spent all day yesterday at the Minnesota State Fair, the Great Minnesota Get Together. It was a gorgeous picture-perfect day with the...

For the past couple of years, I've been spending a lot of time with my 5-string banjo. I've acquired quite a few excellent instruction...

This summer, I finally had cataract surgery on both my eyes. Although an opthamologist from the U of M recommended that I get both...

At the end of June, I was finally able to get away from Minneapolis for a week-long vacation, my first one in four years. I travelled to...

Most of the topics in my blog posts so far have been fairly easy, even fun to write about. But the one I want to tackle now is very...

Much of my life consists of a great variety of rituals and routines. I looked up both words in a dictionary. A ritual was defined as a...

I just finished attending a four-day, national NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) conference at the convention center in downtown...

For as long as I can remember, music has always played a pivotal role in my life. My dad once told me the story of how, after returning...

I've been paying attention to my dreams for as long as I can remember. For many years now, I've kept a dream journal in which I record...

Over the past few years, I've gotten more and more concerned about the frequency of mass shootings in our country and the proliferation...

One phenomenon I've become increasingly aware of recently is the tendency of people to talk to themselves. I've observed it everywhere:...

Recently, I've been reading two books by Ursula Hegi which have had a profound effect on me. The first one is a best-selling novel...

While growing up, I had a number of mystical experiences, many of which had a religious origin. One of the first occurred when I was...

1986: it was the worst of times, it was the best of times. As one important chapter of my life closed, another opened up. I was...