Humanity: Raw & Unfiltered
A Simon and Garfunkel record plays in the background as the clock announces that it is past midnight. I am not tired at all. It must have been all that coffee I drank earlier or perhaps – like any other parent – I stay up late because this is only Read more
“Thinking about how we mourn artists we’ve never met. We don’t cry because we knew them, we cry because they helped us know ourselves.” – @ElusiveJ Bowie and Prince were difficult ones for me. Like Freddie Mercury. I think back to how every weekend in high school at the dance Read more
We all know the effect that music has over us. A song can lift our spirits or bring us to our knees with melancholy. Much to the chagrin of my inner circle, I fantasize about the music career that I did not have. Fantasy carries me along with every lyric Read more
Perla Batalla, a backup singer for Leonard Cohen for many years, was in concert in Los Angeles recently. In her second act she shared the story of the time Mr. Cohen asked her to sing one of his biggest hits, Bird On A Wire at a party. She demurred—panicked, actually—and Read more