by Greg M | Feb 15, 2018 | Adventures in Living, The Creative Life
To celebrate Steve Roach’s birthday on Feb. 16, here again is my interview with him, published on Feb. 16, 2011. This all comes in the afterglow of Steve’s three extraordinary performances in Tucson, Feb. 9-11. My two-part report on that trip, the music...
by eyes cast down | Aug 3, 2015 | Adventures in Living
Vacation time! We spent a delightful week (entirely offline and unplugged) chilling in the Boulder Lake Campground, part of the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, in northern Wisconsin. After the long drive up from Chicago, the last hour was a joy, winding along...
by eyes cast down | May 16, 2014 | Adventures in Living
Kalman Cat left us in mid-April, just a few days before his 18th birthday. When we left the house early that morning, he was fine. When my wife returned home around 10am, he was breathing rapidly, very uncomfortable and – most unusual for him – completely withdrawn....
by eyes cast down | Nov 14, 2013 | Adventures in Living, The Creative Life, Working That Studio
My wife and I have taken several long-weekend trips to the Tibetan-Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center near Bloomington, IN, and from the first visit (18 months ago), it became our go-to getaway place. It features pervasive quiet, pristine grounds for walking, deer...
by eyes cast down | Oct 31, 2012 | Adventures in Living
It was time for another long weekend in the woods, so in mid-October we returned to the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center in Bloomington, IN, which we had gratefully discovered six months ago. Autumn is my favorite season, so this was the perfect time to be...
by eyes cast down | May 1, 2012 | Adventures in Living
By mid-April my wife and I were ready for a break. In the first week, I had played two live shows, on the 1st and 7th. If that wasn’t hectic enough, that same week we bade farewell to one of our two 16-year-old cats. Sandor had gone blind six weeks earlier, and...