When Leonard Cohen died back in 2016, I felt as if I’d lost a lifelong friend. He was eighty-two then—still spry the last time I saw him perform, first in Las Vegas and then in Los Angeles. Ray and I even flew to Denver to hear him again, though that concert was rained out. We…
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Leonard Cohen, Brother George, and How the Light Gets In
Someone recently mentioned Leonard Cohen, and I immediately thought of the verse in the song, Anthem, below. This is a piece I wrote a while back, but it makes me happy to remember my late brother George’s victory over substance abuse. This is George’s story and what lessons we can all learn from it. Ring…
Stumbling Back Upon My Voice
Tonight I was in the bathroom surrounded by tile walls and before I knew it I was singing Joan Baez’s Silver Dagger: “Don’t sing love songs, you’ll wake my mother She’s sleeping here right by my side And in her right hand, a silver dagger She’s says that I can’t be your bride. All men…
20 Minutes a Day 