Woodcuttingfool

The first time I heard a Lou Reed song I was 18 years old and floating down the Chattahoochee River in a canoe. A shirtless Georgia teenag...

William Burroughs is largely known for three things. He was a junkie, he wrote Naked Lunch  and he shot and killed his wife Joan Vollmer. ...

In 1949, the writing team of Betty Comden & Adolph Green walked into the MGM offices of Arthur Freed. Freed, a lyricist and renowned f...

Looking back, there was a clear sign that Trump might actually win. On Election Day, an angry horde of bees circled our polling place, div...

"Right now, right here, you are free."  With these seven words George Falcon began each session.  The topic was always the same....

Recently I was teaching a printmaking class at a senior home when I encountered a woman named Phoebe who'd lost her right arm.  We beg...

As a teenager, I suffered from depression.  I woke most days with a sense of ennui and hopelessness. My dark moods informed the music I li...