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“What do you see as your 5 yr plan?”
“What do you hope to be doing in 10 yrs?”
“What is your career path?”
I have decided that I don’t have an answer to any of those questions.  Because if you had told me 5 yrs ago, or 10 yrs ago, that I would be writing Amish Love [...]

I’m in Memphis, TN… and I love it here. .. Well at least the 2 mile radius I have experienced in downtown that includes the famous Beale St. – a strip of blues clubs and restaurants filled with proud locals and lots of tourists. 
I’m here for UPTA – the United Professional Theatre Auditions… Over 800 actors [...]

Happy New Year from a terrible blogger… Hope to get better…
A few things…
1st… Congrats to Miss Arizona Katy Bulkley for making Top 10 at Miss America in Vegas… Very proud of her!
2nd… American Idol has begun!  Whether you like the show or not there is good, good news… Jennifer Lopez is on every week… enough [...]

Well, I have failed as a weekly blogger… really failed!  But I am committed to at least update every month.  Some very cool things have gone on over the last several months… well at least cool to me.  Will list some in no particular order…
1) Met Kelly Clarkson… she came to my Rising Star songwriting [...]

This is a two part blog on the subject of VEGETABLES… very inspiring, I’m sure!?!?
#1 – I was struck this morning sitting at my favorite Meat&3 in Franklin, TN – Puckett’s Grocery, at their new fancy shmancy electronic menus on the wall.  If you are not from the south, let me explain.  A Meat & [...]

Well…my Tuesday nights are taken again… so much talent, so little time.
I host a songwriting competition in downtown Franklin, TN on Tuesday nights.  It’s really a lot of fun. We do 7 weeks of preliminary rounds where songwriters come to share one song…usually just them and a guitar/piano.  I bring in some industry folks who [...]

I love Las Vegas… OK…there… I said it… I really do. Why? Lots of reasons… The food is world class! Mon Ami Gabi was a cool new place I tried out on my trip there last week. Great place in the Paris. French steak and fries! Sitting outside on the patio (67 degrees in December) [...]

(Brad Arnold and Charlie Daniels Jammin’ out!)(Phil Vassar – or is that an angel)
It’s nice when people do nice things… Monday night I went to a fund raising concert at the world famous Ryman Auditorium… really a great place. Everybody who is anybody in country music has played there and everybody still wants [...]

November 14, 2009
SORRY I HAVEN’T WRITTEN IN A COUPLE WEEKS – MY BAD – WON’T HAPPEN AGAIN – EXPECT SOMETHING NEW EVERY WEDNESDAY!!!
Fun week here in Music City USA… in case you don’t know, Nashville is the Country Music Capital of the World.  And this week is just one of the weeks that prove it.  [...]

This week we (our kids) had two days off for ‘fall break’. So last Friday the family set off for a few days vacation.  Can you guess where we went?  I’ll give you a few choices:
1) Memphis, TN – Graceland (home of Elvis)
2) Atlanta, Georgia - big city, lots to do
3) Destin, FL – huge beach [...]