My Latest Read: Café d’Afrique: A Personal Discovery
When Tineke Van der Eecken first arrives in Africa as part of an international aid programme, she brings with her a mix of childhood dreams and Western preconceived ideas. ‘I came to Africa in high...
View ArticlePerfect Day
I wrote this the last day of 2009. Still working on it. It feels natural, waking up in Ireland. Like I was born in the wrong place, and now I’m home. And my life has felt more real since the first...
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Understaying Your Welcome
She shoved her wadded up sweats and t-shirt into her duffle bag. Down in the yard, a blue jay dove on a squirrel. Hand still in the bag, she imagined a mother bird risking all to protect her young....
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Creative Trip Around the World
In this week’s 21st Century Creative podcast Mark McGuinness and guest Laurie Millotte discuss creating a global business. Laurie’s challenge to listeners was to create a round-the-world trip based on...
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blow, wind!
blow, wind! shatter leaves from the trees and slash them through my dream pour them onto the road I cannot travel smear them across the windows I cannot see blow, wind! tear the rain from the air and...
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February Album Writing Month Rides Again
Tomorrow begins a month-long exercise in artistic immersion. I’ve been participating in February Album Writing Month (FAWM) since 2006, making this my 13th year. (I missed the first year it went...
View Article2 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...
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Coffee, 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...
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Genuine 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...
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The 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...
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Podcaster 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...
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this 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...
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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...
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Since 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...
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Yesterday’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...
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