Archive for October, 2007

From the Sublime to the Ridiculous

October 31, 2007

Last Wednesday, James and I accompanied our dear friend L. to a Tea Room in Nevada City. It’s upstairs from an antique store; part of the same family business which has been in town for many years.
Ordinarily, James and I wouldn’t seek out such a place, but L. has been wanting us to go there [...]

New music: “Halloween Symphony”

October 26, 2007

For over a week, I’ve been immersed in composing a new piece of music, called “Suite: Darker Side of Nowhere” which is for Halloween. It’s meant to be played for trick-or-treaters, or at a party.
It’s in three sections (or movements) and totals fifteen minutes. You can listen and download it from the song page [...]

Old Blog Deleted

October 6, 2007

Over the past two days, I have laboriously copied all entries and their accompanying comments from my old blog, into a document that will serve as my memories of a certain small town that I thought I would spend the rest of my life in.
I did this because I have just deleted that blog. As [...]

Slowly Settling In

October 4, 2007

Well, um…let’s see…
Where to start?
As more time passes without an update, the job of “catching up” becomes more daunting.
When I first started keeping diaries as a teenager, there were periods when I didn’t write every day. But the little hard-bound red book had a date for each page, so I would faithfully go back several [...]