One the best-known painters in America in the mid-1900's was Andrew Wyeth. He painted the people and landscapes around him, mostly near his home in rural Pennsylvania and his summer home in Maine. In 1986, a series of over 247…
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Sep 1 2023
Sep 1 2023
One the best-known painters in America in the mid-1900's was Andrew Wyeth. He painted the people and landscapes around him, mostly near his home in rural Pennsylvania and his summer home in Maine. In 1986, a series of over 247…
Read moreJun 22 2023
‘Kiss the Rock’ is an expression that comes from canoeing/kayaking. It refers to paddling a whitewater river and hitting a rock broadside. Most people’s instinct would be to lean away from the rock, but the correct thing to do is…
Read moreMay 24 2023
I have been running momondays – an event focused on personal storytelling – since 2012. Pre-pandemic, we were in 16 cities across North America. During that time, I personally saw the transformative power of personal storytelling.
That’s what inspired this…
Apr 19 2023
Imagine bashing together The Gambler, Mr. Bojangles, and Born to be Wild. Hear it unfold in my latest single, “Let the Wild Orchids Grow.”
Every year, I go on a week-long motorcycle ride with a bunch of guys. We’ve traveled…
Read moreFeb 28 2023
“When you have the time you don’t have the money, and when you have the money, you don’t have the time.”
That phrase popped into my head and I blurted it out to the three dogs I was walking along…
Feb 7 2023
I was NOT intending to write this song. I really wasn't. But when your baby has a baby, and your baby says, 'I'm expecting you to write a song about my baby', well, there's only one answer you can…
Read moreMay 25 2022
When I was in grade 6, I had a very bad relationship with a guitar.
I wanted to learn to play, so my parents borrowed a really nice guitar for me to practice with, and arranged for lessons. On talent…
Read moreNov 19 2021
Yes, that's me. I was always a shy, insecure kid. (Can you tell?)
Well, it's precisely because I didn't want to continue being a shy, insecure grown-up that i pushed myself to live full out, doing extreme sports, becoming a…
Oct 1 2021
Every year for the past 25 years, I go on a whitewater canoe trip in the Canadian near north. We drive north for 5 hours, then bump along a logging road for another three and half hours, and get dropped…
Read moreAug 18 2021
How a 'yes, and...' mindset made us the heroes at a private concert.
My band was hired to provide the entertainment at a birthday party. Yes, we were all double vaxxed and yes, it was outside, and yes, we maintained…
Read moreAug 10 2020
You know that person. You’re performing your heart out and all you can see is that one person, usually head down, likely looking at their phone, apparently lost in their own world, not paying attention to you.
Distracted. Disinterested. Disengaged.
…
Read moreJan 10 2020
THIS AIN’T CAR CAMPING…
When most people think of camping, they imagine loading up the car with as much stuff they can stuff, and heading to a state or provincial park complete with comfort stations and convenience stores within driving…
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