Story Excerpts

Fiction - Novel
The Sound of Money
Musician gets mixed up with the mob
My Year as a Clown
Chuck Morgan confronts single life when his wife of twenty years leaves for another man.
Creative Non-Fiction
Somalia and Soccer
Mogadischu is New Orleans fourteen years out if nobody came to the rescue.
Nashville Gold
Selling songs in Nashville is like trying to strike it rich after the gold rush
On the Mat
Yoga is part of my everyday life, so is writing; this blog bridges the gap
The Connecticut Philadelphian
Die-hard Philly Sports Fan Blogs in CT Despite the Losing
The Harvard Wedding and Lunch with Fidel
A Struggling writer can't face business school friends at a wedding
Short Stories -- Fiction
Chaperone
Dad takes son to a hard core rock show and relives teen age years
The Jersey Cowboy
High school football star graduates to the union docks
Coming Home
Davida must decide what to do about her father's return from prison
Weekly Essay Archive
A Writer's Journal
Web postings dating back to June 2003

If you’re over forty, what the hell are you doing in the music business?

June 16, 2009

You’re too old. Too out of touch. Too set in your ways. Too everything.

And that’s exactly what I was telling myself yesterday as my body refused to recover from Bonnaroo. I used to stay up deep into the night effortlessly. I handled the heat of summer. I drank and toked without (more…)

end of an era

June 7, 2009

Tags: Pharrell Williams, The Strokes

These are the last days of Virgin Megastore. On Friday I walked through their Union Square 50,000 square foot location. The place had been slashed to a single floor – everything was for sale from the cash registers to the lights. The downstairs was already a construction zone. The loud clang of shelves being dismantled competed (more…)