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Wanting to be real, and good - and maybe to hug a tree...with the great Stevie Nicks as guide.

Songs in this episode: Invisible & a snippet of Sorcerer (Stevie cover)

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Dad, and dealing with dementia. Writing and music are the only ways I can make sense of any of this right now. Hope maybe this helps someone else to deal.

Music inspiration from Mississippi John Hurt

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"...and I think my spaceship knows which way to go." Sometimes a trip to Manhattan and some good old classic rock is what it takes to make it through.

Traffic, and Traffic. Music in this episode - you get one guess.

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Dropping some of the heavy weight of stuff I've been carrying around forever. Should be easy to get rid of most of it...right?

Heard this JJ Cale song when I was thinking about archives and career ephemera and it felt just perfect.

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Vanity, tragedy and everything in between. Prayers to St. Anthony. Worked in a new song demo (spot the Spinal Tap reference). Shout out to my invisible friends Kim and Jenn at Everything is Fine podcast.

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England, NYC, upstate...a little bit of this and that because sometimes the big things are just too big.

Apologies to Dr. Hook...

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Serendipity and hard life lessons - sometimes the teacher is there all along. An appreciation of a true star Ronnie Spector. 

Buy Ronnie’s book Be My Baby at your local bookstore or order online through bookshop.org. Her story will make you laugh, wince, cry and remember why she is truly one of the greats – her voice! The postscript she wrote in November 2021 will lift and then break your heart.

You can find All I Want on The Very Best Of Ronnie Spector.  (I recorded my own version for Middlescence in 1998)

If you or someone you care about is suffering from domestic abuse/coercive control, please reach out https://coercivecontrolcollective.org

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Looking for self-knowledge isn't the escape it used to be. Virtual appointments remind me of the old days when therapy meant furniture that didn't come off the street.

Music in this episode: 

• So You Know Now from Little Fugitive
• Invisible from Middlescence

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Going out west to visit my grown up daughter Hazel, I think about travel and getting older. How good it feels to see your kid doing good, how much I love Southern California. A fellow passenger's question on the way home gives me pause.

With a bit of music inspired by Joni Mitchell's This Flight Tonight, which thanks to Hazel I found out was a hit for Nazareth? Never knew that. There's forever so much to learn.

It's the one year anniversary of the Diary podcast! Thanks for listening.

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Traveling and family, regret and wondering who we musicians are on the road without a guitar.

• Invisible
• Tomorrow's All We've Got from A One Way Ticket To My Life