Here are a few items that I have gathered into one blog post. If I were clever all the time, I would have made them four separate blog-posts...

Music: This was my last week of French camp gigs. My last gig was a regular musical storytime akin to the ones I usually present. I didn...

I appreciate it when an artist shames a big big beaurocratic organization into realizing that they can't get away with bad policies. I d...

Like me, K.Jay of Amish Guitar began to learn to play guitar as an adult. Here's a post about some of the things he's learned along...

Greetings from Santa Fe, New Mexico! The time is passing quickly. I've had two jam sessions with the friend of my mom who lent me one of...

This flowchart by MisterHippity , (courtesy of The Urban Mennonite ) of how Pete Seeger would write songs if he had been a software engineer...

Your Roommate Plays the Indigo Girls , by Lore Sjöberg For those of you who have requested a sound file of me singing and playing guitar, th...

Yes, the quarter-sized* pink guitar was a partially an impulse purchase,** and no, I didn't wait for a special occasion to give it to Lu...

Last night, we went over to some friends' house for dinner. The friends had a Wii set up, and when I found out that they had Guitar Her...

Pictured: the Farida A-22CE Electro-Acoustic Guitar Someone came to my website looking for "Farida guitars home page." The top hit...

Photo by Eliza Truitt Photography Scroll down to the videos labeled "Going to Boston" and "Leatherwing Bat," and you...

Today, I played two songs in my guitar teacher's twice-yearly informal recital for students called the Coffee Shop Jam. I played two fol...

Today is Two days ago was the two year anniversary of this blog. To celebrate, I bought a new guitar. Of course, I was going to buy the gu...

Ulric plays an original composition on the guitar that is heavily inspired by "The Devil Went Down to Georgia." * In the song, a m...

I know these ballet slippers are not silver boots. They're still on my wish-list. I wouldn't turn down silver boots, either. Lucia w...

Bud Luckey and Don Hadley were one of my favorite song-writing duos* from my single-digit years.** Hadley wrote the lyrics, and Luckey wrot...

Giotto's Flight into Egypt Robert Croo receives attribution for the lyrics to "The Coventry Carol," written in 1534. The song ...

I have not forgotten about the word bank that is funding my latest puppet-show. I keep adding your words to the list. They're just love...

Seattle schools closed last Tuesday and Wednesday because of the icy conditions after the snowfall, and I spent both days inside the house w...

Sometimes, when I pick up my guitar, Lucia howls, "Don't play the guitar! Hold you! Hold you like a baby !" She tries to mute ...