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November 23, 2018

Piano playing. Guitar strumming. Songwriting. I’ve been doing these things my whole life, but after every extended absence, it always feels

October 23, 2018

Returning to NYC, circa 2018… I hadn’t done it for awhile. I believe 2015 was when I last spent significant time away from my little studi

September 24, 2018

Sometimes - and for me, almost always - we need a slight push to inspire us to complete the things we might have challenged ourselves to acc

August 24, 2018

Well, it happened. Our high school class of 1978 celebrated its 40th reunion over two festive nights last weekend. Burlington High School. B

July 24, 2018

As I enter into the heart of the busy season here in Restaurant World, Martha’s Vineyard, I find myself wondering how other people I’ve admi

June 24, 2018

Well, this writer/musician is now a full-time restaurant-working professional again, and man - how was I ever able to do this much work AND

May 22, 2018

Omens… Signs… I tend to write a lot about these things, it seems. In fact, there’s a story titled “Omens” in the “Bingo Ray” collection, and

April 24, 2018

For the first time, I didn’t get one of these blogs done on the same day I’d written the monthly email. Usually I like to surprise myself wi

March 21, 2018

Well, as semi-promised last month, I was able to finish “Infinite Jest” before this new blog would be written! Oh, sure - I didn’t get it do

February 22, 2018

I just hinted to my monthly email group that I might blog about what it’s like to be in the middle of reading “Infinite Jest” by David Foste

January 23, 2018

I’d given myself this month of January to sit back and contemplate what my next steps should be, seeing as we finally have michaelaba.com in

December 21, 2017

In getting ready to write for the 2nd-ever Christmas blog on michaelaba.com, I couldn’t resist checking back to see what I had to say this t