While making music, a trance state ensues, subtly exposing unexplored potential for closer examination. Sonics channel, form sensuous,...

(a fictional story of growth) Upon birth of their first and only child five years prior to the pandemic of 2020, Able's parents...

~ Hey canyon crow ~ wing-tipping the rim! ~ Riding the flow ~ of warm updrafts thin. ~ Where do you go ~ on a soaring whim? ~ What do you...

Every time I cook up a batch of spaghetti sauce, I think of Betty. I had not heard of bay leaf before Betty. She made its use special...

~ A Mystery Novel ~ This is a work of fiction inspired by real experiences of my life. It includes passages of real events, people,...

STINK vs STENCH ~ The final day of the documentary shoot, we woke up to a horrible stink in the house. Southwestern Oklahoma was dealing...

Gathered first chokecherries of the season this morning from a patch near the county road. It's always first to ripen up and first to get...

A PERFECT STORM ~ Success did not come easy for the Russells. Thirteen years working together, Harley and Annabelle kept an open mind as...

STAMINA & STOICISM ~ The entire duration of the documentary shoot, I lived in the Russell's Redneck Castle with them–sleeping on their...

BAD AFTER GOOD ~ Although Erick was never really part of the dust bowl, it was close. As a child living in Sayre less than sixteen miles...

COMPETITION? ~ I once stopped at a brand new Route 66 roadside attraction shortly after it opened. It was a museum established in an old...

21st CENTURY STARTUP ~ My earliest years of life were spent living in different towns located on or near Route 66 in Oklahoma which meant...

SUCCESS AT LAST ~ Growing up, I lived in several places from small towns of meager populations to a sprawling city of more than four...

Some years there is an abundance of choke cherries and I never hesitate to harvest as much as possible anywhere bears are not feeding on...

HARLEY & ANNABELLE'S TOUCH ~ A decade before the turn of the century, a friend asked me to join him playing in a folk and bluegrass music...