Don’t change so the right people will like you, be yourself so the right people will love you. (thanks, Deb T.) Until the lions have their historians, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter. —African proverb All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal. —John Steinbeck (thanks, Matt Wallace) You in trouble if you ain’t … Read More

Here we go again, sports fans. I saw the brilliant Neil Gaiman do this once and thought, What a fun thing to keep track of. It’s a cool way of knowing what we are putting into our minds and hearts, and we can stalk each other’s list to see what lights us up and what sucks. Last year, I just … Read More

“We are all on a big boat together, and we are all a long, long way from land. I think we gotta help each other. And I think when we won’t help someone else, we are hurting ourselves.” This quote is from my friend and neighbor Craig Morris (pictured here with his rock star wife and the band). Craig takes … Read More

You know that feeling when you can hear an entire song playing in your head—every single note and lyric—but you can’t remember what you needed from the grocery store? Songs are time travel—a moment locked in forever you can visit at will.  Some are so good, you can’t just put ’em on in the background ’cause they demand the full … Read More

  “We make the monsters.” —Paula Cole * * * Pain. The most natural thing in the world. The one thing you can count on, no matter where you come from, how much or how little you got, where you were born, or how good or how bad yesterday was, is more pain. This is not a negative statement—it’s a … Read More

As I post road stories, this one gets asked about quite a bit, and it’s high time we tell those of you outside the inner circle what happened a few years back on a fine fall day in Cheyenne, Wyoming… We were working overtime to launch the charity Funding The Future with our Cheyenne friends Michelle Dehoff and Rita P. They … Read More

“Don’t try so hard.” —Freddy Mercury I am writing this one from bed, sick for the first time in forever. Now, I can give you all the excuses for why I’m sick—just got off 10 weeks on the road (and luckily, my mind does a good job willing me not to get sick out there on the highways), major changes … Read More

Just wrapped week nine of 10 on the road down in Naples, Florida. Played four shows with our amazing sponsor and good friend Ilona Box of Church and Box/Raymond James. This last show of this week was at Lely High School, where some of the lighting in the auditorium is still out from last year’s hurricane. No matter, no mind—the … Read More

“The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.” —Hugh McCleod Several close friends of mine are talking about getting out of jobs they are unhappy with and getting closer to the life they imagined. I am also asked daily by students at the shows … Read More