Seven Days, Seven Songs
TLDR: I participated in a seven days, seven songs songwriter challenge. Spoiler: I made it. The songs are still pretty rough, the recordings are full of mistakes, and I’m half […]
Rocky Mountain Song School
That line I dropped at the end of my South Dakota missive about “setting up for the next adventure,” was not an empty promise. In fact, I’d contemplated skipping going […]
Rapid City
I hadn’t meant to leave you in the jet-fueled haze of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. I started writing up my Rapid City layover – a few days exploring western South Dakota with […]
Done.
In his aerial travelogue of flying a newly-purchased Stearman across the country, aviation writer Stephen Coonts wrote, “Flying is like sex – I’ve never had all I wanted but occasionally […]
Minot, North Dakota
First thing you need to know – which I only learned when Minneapolis Center handed me off to Minot Approach, was that it’s pronounced “MY-not”, not “me-KNOW” or any other […]
Learning the Lines
Just a brief note here with an announcement: I’m tickled pink to share that “Learning the Lines,” a song Jay Hagar and I recorded, has taken second place in the […]
Dancing Between the Raindrops
I’m going to chalk it up to luck, because there’s no way I could plan this, even if I had a feed of the weather channel piped directly into my […]
In My Element
I’m still dipping my fork into the puddle of warm maple and whipped cream left over from the bread pudding that served as breakfast, while sipping away on a mug […]
The Mountains are Calling
I’m sure there’s a way to tell this part of the story concisely, and without quite so much whining. But I’m not sure I have it in me to distill […]
David and the *Almost* Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Raise your hand if you’ve ever lost your phone. Raise your hand if you’ve ever lost your phone somewhere in the middle of five acres of pasture you’ve been mowing […]
David Pablo Cohn 