Back on Track, The Rule of 5

Hi fellow adventurers, I’m excited that things are moving forward for me again. It’s really cool to be humming along after I’d been in a period of time where my wheels were spinning, nothing seemed to be coming together. One thing about being a motivated, goal setting type of guy, you really notice when you [...]

TAA Lagniappe

Some ramblings from The Affluent Artist:
I’m watching the movie A Beautiful Mind and it is difficult to sit through it without wondering if you are just a little crazy too. Or is that just me? Ok, I’ll accept that it is just me.
A friend of mine helped me remember a great definition of finally having [...]

Patrick Tafoya, Orlando Artist

This week’s artist profile is about an Orlando sculpture and painter, Patrick Tafoya. Even though we live in the same county, I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting Patrick yet, but I plan to get to his Winter Park studio soon. We are about the same age, from the same part of the world originally [...]

Grandpa Learns Web Design

Aging Baby Boomer Grandfather guy has  reached a point where I need to know enough about web site design to be able to design a page, make changes to my site and all the other things I’ve self limited myself out of when it comes to the internet. We talk a lot on these pages [...]

Procrastination, not so much…

I posted on Monday about not getting things done and catching myself being a little human. I’m happy to say, I’m beating this particular form of resistance this week.
Got a lot of work done, made arrangements to go to an internet boot camp in Virginia in 2 weeks and I started a new series of [...]

Saddest Song Ever

I’m voting for Bonnie Raitt’s Love Has No Pride. Raitt said she lost someone and “tried to sing him back for 2 years”. Linda Ronstadt and I think Jackson Brown have covered it. Here’s Linda Ronstadt’s version.

Wild Horses by the Stones and Garth Brooks’s Wolves are pretty close too. There is the whole genre of [...]

Procrastination… Maybe I'll write this later…

I’ve developed a new habit that I’m not too fond of, putting things off that I don’t want to deal with. It’s Monday morning and all the things I said I’d do on Monday have piled up and I still don’t want to do them. It’s clerical stuff, WORK stuff that really amounts to nothing [...]

Eco Art Girl

If you know anything about me at all, you know I love creative people, music and being outside. My boat is my sanctuary, dolphins and manatees my involuntary guitar audience. So, when I found out about this week’s artist, Roselynn Imbleau, I was captivated by her work.
As usual, this financial guy is not going to [...]

Beginnings

I need to share one more thing about my concert experience with Chicago.
It’s just a gratitude thing, really… One of the songs that made me want to play guitar”someday” was the Chicago hit Beginnings… So, here we are, in someday and I watched the great Robert Lamb leave his keyboard and play those familiar chords [...]

25 or 6 to 4

Back in junior high school, when it came time to pick a musical instrument, it was made clear to me that guitar was out and I should pick a BAND instrument. So, maybe because my Dad liked Tommy Dorsey, maybe because I saw 76 Trombones in 2nd grade or maybe because I wanted to march [...]

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