About Halloween...

Little sweetheart, as I said before, I think aside from Christmas, Halloween was your favorite holiday. 

Somehow in my years and travels and disappointments, I had lost the joy I had had of the occasion as a child. Maybe - unless we're lucky enough to have children of our own - that happens to many of us. But I'll repeat here a brief story (that is detailed fully in our book). 

Halloween 2008 found me in LA at the end of a brief run of two of my plays in rep - Real Real Gone and Seven Pages Unsigned - at The Road theatre company in West Hollywood. I'd spent the week there and you were famously bemused because I was "in your state!" but we both were working - you about to transfer Rock n Roll from SF to Boston and me down in LA. 

You couldn't make it south although I came to Boston shortly thereafter. 

Halloween was the day I flew back to NYC from the Van Nuys airport and everyone at the Jet Blue desk was in costume. They were even giving out candy. The penny dropped. Like in a thousand others things your love showed me the light. 

When did I go off Halloween?! Gah! Was I too cool for it? How did that help anything? 

You gave me back so much light, little sweetheart. I had a five hour flight and you yourself were en route to Logan, but I couldn't wait to tell you.

One More From Ireland

Little sweetheart - I'm so grateful that I have almost 300 pictures from our trip to Ireland and I just came across another one, so please forgive me for interrupting the timeline, here! 

This is a delightful picture - so very you! - plopping yourself face down on the bed of our cottage in Kilcrohane after the long journey (begun leaving London at 4am!) when we finally arrived, settled in and were in our new home. 

So perfect! Love you forever! 

14th Anniversary of "Of Love and Loss"

Little sweetheart, it was 14 years ago today that we released the second Bipolar Explorer, Of Love and Loss  - a double-album that was both your debut, the redirection of the group's sound and its forthgoing dedication to be of, for and about you. 

4 years ago, on the 10th anniversary of its release, I played a live solo electric set here in NYC that was recorded and put out as a Bandcamp exclusive EP. Today, that live show will have a wider release. 

With all my love...

Halloween season

My little sweetheart, I think aside from Christmas - which you loved! - Halloween was your favorite holiday. 

I've so much to say about that! 

Of course, there's a very very long passage about it in the book I'm writing. But I'll be doing some posts about Halloween and how it was special to you and because of you, to me, again, within these pages. Comin' up!

(Together) On the Roof

Little sweetheart, here's a picture of us together a few moments later on the roof as the snow begins to gather! There's another black n white shot that was our Christmas card for years. Let me find it!

Let it Snow

Little sweetheart, I took this picture of you on the roof of the building here in NYC when you came down from Boston after Rock n Roll closed at The Huntington. It was just before Christmas and we had been sitting on the plaid couch in the living room when we noticed it had began to snow. It was still just beginning to come down but if you look closely you can see snowflakes in the air and dotting your hat and hair...

No Place Like Home, Right?

Little sweetheart, whenever you got home, the first thing you did - quite sensibly - was change into jammies and slippers and put your hair up. I was never much of a PJ's guy until I met you but you fully converted me! 

This is a shot of you in the kitchen here in NYC - it's so different now! - dinned in pajamas and a nice pair of Uggs, checking your phone, a diet soda at the ready. What a welcome sight! 

I always loved just kicking back at home with you, wherever we were - NYC, SF, Davis or on the road in Seattle, London, Boston, back in our hotel or guest lodgings. No place like home, right?