2 Happy Songs and 2 Long Drives
Tucson Our little one visits her sister in Tucson every month. She usually stays 3 nights. They have a studio so while the little one and her sister are up all night singing and laughing and making...
View ArticleCoffee, 2 Weathers, Please
People make funny assumptions. Because I (usually) drink decaf, apparently people think I like weak coffee. One place I worked, my morning ritual was to dump out the watery half-strength muck someone...
View ArticleMassive Mustard Mess
https://s3.amazonaws.com/spinhead/share/clients/JoelDCanfield/audio/posts/massive-mustard-mess.mp3 Transcript (but it’s better if you listen) When the Texas economy crashed in 89 I loaded my pregnant...
View ArticleGenuine Moroccan Cheesecake
https://s3.amazonaws.com/spinhead/share/clients/JoelDCanfield/audio/posts/Moroccan-restaurant.mp3 Transcript (but it’s better if you listen) We know a teacher in Denver who likes to take us out for...
View ArticleThe Stranger on the Road
Ever since he’d set the barn up as a recording studio, he’d wanted a window so he could see his farm while he played. Windows not being inherently sound-deadening, it was a complication, but over time...
View ArticlePodcaster Baker Traveler Coach
I first met Mark Dyck (he pronounces it “dick” so I was saying it wrong in my head lo these many years) in Seth Godin’s Triiibes network, closed long ago. He was in the process of quitting his job...
View Articlethis is not a post
the cold I’ve been running from has caught me we leave tomorrow morning for northern Wisconsin four day drive we might be moving my mom out of her apartment after 22 years and into assisted living I’ll...
View ArticleA Test Video
We are traveling. Are you? The post A Test Video appeared first on Joel D Canfield.
View ArticleIt’s All One Post
Somewhere in Neil Young’s live album Year of the Horse he yells “It’s all one song!” I’m beginning to feel that way about my posts lately. Guess I write what I know, eh? Today we learned my mom was...
View ArticleSince My Whole Life is Moving Mom…
Saturday, the day it didn’t rain we moved Mom’s stuff from her apartment to the assisted living facility. It was easy, which is becoming the norm on this project. Couple young friends did the heavy...
View ArticleYesterday’s Moon
http://songs.tunehenge.com/yesterdaysmoon.mp3 This was meant to be a hopeful happy coming home love song. Turned itself into an “I’d love to stay but you know I’m a traveler” song. Lyrics yesterday’s...
View ArticleDo the Math
Second of four songs I wrote in February. Best Beloved’s feet are even itchier than mine. We’ve driven all over two countries and we’ll never really settle down. Seed for the song (this version, #3 I...
View ArticleTunisia Travel Tickets
I love vintage travel posters. I’ve spent bits of time over the past month copying (very roughly) this poster I found online, assuming it was from the 30s or thereabouts. (My copy first, the original...
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