Growth Is Exciting. Growth Is Also Distracting.
Apple A Day Summer is about tending what grows, pruning what no longer belongs, and giving yourself room to keep going.
The Courtyard at the Radio & Records Café
A space for stories, reflections, and the work behind the scenes—drawn from creativity, resilience, and a life in radio.
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Starting Again Without Starting From Scratch
Spring is not a clean slate. It is planting from the soil you actually have.
Returning to the Orchard
Apple A Day began twelve years ago in a composition notebook. This year, I’m tending it again.
The Long Road to Here
In the middle of heart failure, those words felt personal. As though my brother was reaching across time to remind me...
The Draft Is Done. Now the Real Work Begins.
It all started with a question: What Would You Do With The Cafe'?
Dreams Don’t Expire
Heart Lessons came from my experience with heart failure, recovery, grief, faith, surrender, and the life change that eventually led me into the mental health field.
The Journals Hadn’t Changed. I Had.
Twenty years ago this month, my heart failed.
Summer of 1976
America turns 250 this year.
Writing My Way Back to 1975
One of the unexpected joys of writing fiction is discovering where a story comes from.
The Summer Radio Found Pepper
People ask me all the time how I got into radio. Not everyone arrives in radio the same way.