Summer so far has been a time for Ron to take photos (see left) and out of town trips, and for Carol to catch up on movies (having seen Wings of…

Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.~Gregory Bateson Fiction writers are admonished to "show, don't tell." In folk music (and in its conceptual videos), one hears and sees…

. . . come she will." What are the first song lyrics you remember? While Ron's recollections are full of Jimmie Rodgers tunes (played by his father), The Kingston Trio…

Early Spring Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach toward the earth from space, and…

The shortest and most wintry of Ron's compositions on Two Hearts actually started out as a holiday carol, then morphed into an instrumental. Who knows where it may go next?…

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilder Back to the coziness of Chocolate Perks in Duluth this…

To answer a few questions: First, who takes the pictures? We have, for the most part. Ron has the better equipment. The color-wild sunset (left) was taken by R. just…

Have you ever sat with a Salvador Dali painting? Not online, but in "person." Of course, experiences are intensely individual, but it can feel like being literally sucked into one's…

The air feels completely different today, and the sky is deepening into fall. Both of us have been experimenting (enthusiastically!) with various instrument setups and gear while new songs are…