Christmas doesn’t have to be tasteful.

Christmas doesn’t have to be tasteful.

Like most young artists, my earliest endeavors were created with specific spaces in mind. The carefully colored card was designed to accompany a Mother’s Day breakfast. The family portrait – outsized dog included – was a purposeful refrigerator piece. And the...
12 Bands of Christmas

12 Bands of Christmas

There’s a crisp quality to the air that lets you know it’s football season down South. Pumpkins will give way to turkeys and then to twinkling lights, family and friends will gather for holiday celebrations, and the year will end with the promise of a fresh start on...
The Sphere

The Sphere

What’s the best live music set you’ve ever seen? How about this year? If you can’t answer, maybe your best is yet to come. For me? Last night was simply special.  It’s hard to top the musical catalog of one of the all-time great American bands when put in the hands of...
Hard Love

Hard Love

My mom and dad had what most people would call a solid marriage. For more than 37 years, they were together until my father was taken from us by cancer in 2002. If that horrible monster hadn’t entered our lives, I believe my parents would still be committed to the...

Measure of a Man

As a casual observer of current events and someone who is rarely, if ever, swayed by the political climate outside, I have unintentionally begun to see a trend in the conversations I do take part in. Conversations about what it means to be a man, and the popular...