Tag: maine

  • Winding Wind

    Winding Wind

    I’m gearing up for my 60th birthday, and if there’s one thing you do at this age is bury a lot of people. It seems there is always someone dying. This album of songs is all about my love of family, but at this age, I have lost so many elders. These are my stories…

  • Snow Day

    Snow Day

    It snowed hard here in Maine. As I looked out into the backyard and the snow was accumulating fast, this song appeared in my head. I began to sing it. Then it got stuck in Miss Hazel’s head. So we grabbed the kid’s Mac and recorded our little Snow Day song so it can get…

  • End Of A Long Vacation

    Maine has claimed the name Vacationland on her license plates because in the few short weeks of the summer, life is as good as it gets on planet earth. Lucky folk migrate north east to our wild and wooly state, and brave the temperatures of 70-80 degrees Fahrenheit (with a mild breeze so you can…

  • I Come To Maine

    I was born in Augusta, Maine in 1964. That’s a long time ago. I graduated MICA art school in the mid 80s, moved to the Bay Area of California, and began pining away for my home state. I would return most summers to work in the arts and crafts department at summer camps, so I…

  • Bucket List Miracles

    Hey, Jay here. Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve last posted. I got caught up in all of it. Covid scared me. I lost my Dad, and I got all reflective. There were so many things I wish I had done when there was a world. I lamented that I didn’t play enough music.…