I admit to it. I was not always the person I am today. I also admit that my personal awkwardness and my need to fit “in” or be “cool” was enough to overrun the nicer parts of me. Therefore, I admit to being a “guy” and I admit to playing the games and subscribing to a...

Do you remember your early 20’s? Or, maybe you’re in them now. Or, maybe not. Maybe your 20’s were not your glory years or maybe you’ve moved so far away that you forgot what this was like. Do you remember the nights you went out with your friends? What about the wild...

I love this place.I love the beach in wintertime, empty and quiet, and yet remnants of all the memories with indentations of summertime footsteps which never fade. Like our memories for example. Like the times when the sun was hot and the waves were cool and the beach...

Ah, New York, New York. It’s true. It’s a hell of a town. This place has seen me through it all. And I’ve seen her as well. I’ve seen everything here from live shows to small events and from little venues at small clubs to rooftop heights; and of course, I have seen...

There was an evening in the autumn months which I remember specifically and for no other reason than the color of the sky, which was beautiful and I, well . . .I was listening to a song called Us and Them by a band called The Pink Floyd. I remember this more as a...

Epilogue – There was someone who read my first book and reached out to tell me to say the book wasn’t for them. They said the book was depressing to which I replied, “The name of the book is “Operation Depression.”What did they expect, pretty clouds and rainbows?At...

Dear Mother Directional, When there’s nowhere left to fall, then I suppose there’s no more reasons to be afraid of falling. Anywhere you go, there’s no more need to worry about what comes next. What’s going to happen? What should I do?When there’s no more room between...

Dear Mother Directional, I wanted to come clean with you. Here and now. I want to share more about where I am and why. Not to mention the reasons behind where I am; but more, I wanted to send you this to explain what it was like from day one, up until now, and into...

Dear Mother Directional, When there’s science, then there’s a reason to understand why things happen – or why they don’t. When there’s science, there is an understanding of how things work. For example, we know about the trees. We know about the land and the sea. We...

Dear Mother Directional, I am sending this along to you to be kept with my notes and to be filed with my other letters.My idea is to find my vision as well as my voice. I say this because I believe I need to put this out there. I have to give myself something to see....