Lately, I have become a bit of a Vampire in that I only come out at night. This lifestyle is fine for nightclubbing and entertaining when you are most awake after midnight. It’s rare that I am finished performing before eleven p.m. My work day often starts at 9p.m. And so I sleep late, lay [...]

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Yep, I fell off the “don’t eat too much wagon” for a few days and I haven’t worked out much at all. Did I say “I haven’t worked out much?” Let’s say I haven’t worked out at all. I have not stopped thinking about it – getting in shape – and I don’t want to [...]

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Photo: “taxi” by anna kipervaser – On Look Films Sometimes something as random as the taxi you hail can open up a world of new friendship, conversation and interconnection. I got into a conversation with my cab driver – found out he was a musician (he was playing his band’s lovely music on the cab [...]

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Chicago Cabaret Project has been a wonderful boost to my life. The cast of the CCP are super talented and extremely hard working! Sometimes, I think people don’t quite get what they are about. Of course if you attended one show you would totally see, but I believe most folks are confused about what they, [...]

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I just returned from seeing Crazy Heart. I haven’t been so excited by a film in ages. It is terrific. I stood outside the theater pacing back and forth waiting to gush with some fellow movie lovers. So, I decided to come home to share it with you.

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I’m listening to “The Best of Carly Simon” and it brings back so many memories of where I first heard the album: in my freshman college dorm. It just makes me feel like NU 1979 – all bright eyed and bushy tailed. I’m feeling all nostalgic and sentimental like I’m ready to come out of [...]

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Well, it’s back to the grind of trying to rustle up work for the band and keeping track of what we have booked and getting all the date information out to the guys, networking, marketing the public dates we have and making sure I have enough clean clothes to perform in and – oh yeah [...]

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I did it!! I went to see a movie in the theater for the first time in over a month and I ordered no popcorn or a soda or candy or anything!!! And I lived to tell the tale. I can watch movies at home without stuffing my face with extra buttered popcorn and a [...]

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