Of course, the day before my flight to Paris, there are 21 arrests in England, as Scotland Yard thwarts an alleged terrorist plot involving liquid explosives, and the airlines. On the one hand, I guess I take some small comfort that these people were caught, that they weren’t targeting France, etc. On the other, my…
Month: August 2006
I once knew a girl…
In my younger days, I knew a girl. She was beautiful, and she was wild. She was not the life of the party, she *was* the party. People wanted to be around her all the time. She could lure complete strangers with a wink and a smile. At some point, I guess everyone figured she’d…
What it means to "make it your own"
I occasionally give guitar lessons, and certainly I talk to people at various stages of ‘guitarmanship’. My younger brothers both play guitar, as does my father, my uncle, 3 of my cousins, and probably some others I’m forgetting. Of these, I think I’m the only person who even *tries* to play *solos* note-for-note – meaning…