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Funny how the mundane experiences inspire and remind us who and what we love. UK travel, tea and biscuits.

• Music in this episode: Invisible from Middlescence and Do You Remember That from A Working Museum by Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby

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Go on, treat yourself. Or should I? Every time a new year rolls around, I go through the same struggle: To splurge on a beautiful handprinted calendar or take what I'm given. What would you do?

The Dolphin Studio is the home of the beautiful calendar.

Music in this episode:

Invisible

Days 

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Low-key holiday joy, music and a day at the bookstore/bar.

Music in this episode:

• Invisible
• Shopping Around
• Waters of March by Susannah McCorkle 

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I was hoping a pair of overalls would lead me in a new direction, but old ways are hard to shake, especially in challenging times.

Tracks in this episode:

Invisible

Some of Shelly's Blues - Mike Nesmith cover

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Trying to write (and swing) myself out of some darkness. Gigs, getting older; Margaret Renkl and (what else) a cameo by Bob Dylan.

Songs in this episode:

• Invisible (theme music - from Middlescence)
• You're Getting Old - early 90s demo from A One Way Ticket To My Life

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I wrote and recorded the first half of this post/episode back in August, but it felt too effortfully "light" so I decided to shelve it.

The second half came to me two weeks ago at a writing workshop in Michigan where I was instructor and student of some great poets and novelists.  I recorded a cover song to go with it.

When places we don't even like become an important part of our lives, we realize we did like them after all, at least a little bit.

Songs in this episode

• Invisible from Middlescence 
• Only A Broken Heart (cover of a song from Tom Petty's Wildflowers)

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A hose is a hose is a hose...

As promised, a more lighthearted episode. 

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Sometimes it's all a little too much. Covid burnout, post-Ida angst; vertigo and...Dad.

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A mysterious visitor; small town livin'; Nanci Griffith.

Music in this episode

• Invisible from Middlescence
• a late-night version of Nanci's The Flyer (nb This is a late-night cover of Nanci Griffith's The Flyer...I originally did a version for the Nanci tribute Trouble In The Fields that Pete and Maura Kennedy put together - here just trying to capture a little of the moment in one of my favorite songs. Maybe I was drawn to it cause she mentions Pittsburgh but I think she really captured that lonely but hopeful feeling of being a woman on the road as well as anyone ever has.

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"I never thought I'd develop such a fondness for boats" and other thoughts on identity, ambition - and gravity.

Songs in this episode:

• Intro music - Invisible from Middlescence
• Read the Room - unreleased demo, 2020