For Family & Friends

For more than 50 years I’ve written songs, letters and stories to and for and about family and friends. This room is a gathering place for many of those songs and stories and letters as well.

Songs with Stories

Sweet Caroline - Morning Ryde & Family - 2022

During Covid my step-daughter and her family – in 2020 that meant she and her husband and two grandsons – came for three weeks and stayed for more than three months. It was a special precious time.
Can't Help Falling in Love

I CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE 55 Years Apart
Four Young Boys Now Four Young Men
Everyone Is Welcome

There are a few stories that go with this photo and song. The man in the middle is Dr. Les Salmon. He is the father of Chuck Salmon, a dear and lifelong friend of mine. Pat and I spent lots of evenings singing with the extended family.

One Love and Two Lives

Leading Me To You

There are times to step out of one's life and then times to return to one's life.

(11/16/2023)
There You Were

More and more I have come to believe in the importance of rituals and transitions. This visit Pat and i made to my parents' gravesite was the time to truly understand they were both on the other side of this life now.

(11/6/2023)
Part of the River

There is something very real and truly magical about a river

(11/1/2023)
Journey Home

There is something awe inspiring about watching salmon return from whence they came.

(10/26/2023)

Back to The Big Room

Teach Your Children

Singing through the years.

(3/21/2024)
Let's Get Together

The song "Let's Get Together" was bridge between my life in college and my life as a touring musician as a member of The Brothers Four. The Mourning Ryde sang it and then made a recording of it in December of 1967.
The Song We Sing Together (sung nearly 40 years apart)

More than ever I believe these days that like it or not we are all in this together, more alike than different, and we can find each other in the songs we share and the songs we sing together.
Family and friends singing Desperado

Singing through the years

(3/7/2024)

A Personal Journey

The Brothers Four

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For Pat

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A Lover's Quarrel with the World

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Songs with Stories

Sweet Caroline - Morning Ryde & Family - 2022

Can't Help Falling in Love

Four Young Boys Now Four Young Men

Everyone Is Welcome

One Love and Two Lives

Leading Me To You

There You Were

Part of the River

Journey Home

Back to The Big Room

Teach Your Children

Let's Get Together

The Song We Sing Together (sung nearly 40 years apart)

Family and friends singing Desperado

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