Original anecdotes, commentary, rumination, and occasional pontification.
SEPTEMBER 9, 2026 – Though music defines many people in our family, many are also defined by writing. Take my parents, for example. My mother, it seemed, was always writing up a storm, and during the eight years I was away at school, she dashed off several hundred letters. Each was a mix of advice, …
AUGUST 22, 2026 – My dad once said of Björnholm, “It gives me great satisfaction knowing it exists, even when I’m not able to be there.” Today, I recalled that statement while I worked in my makeshift “shipyard” on shore and Beth, Byron’s family, our guests, and Jenny and my niece, who’d wandered over from …