G's Free Thoughts

I have been wearing my mask whenever I go to the grocery store and I practice social distancing.  I don't go out much - I walk my dog ar...

  A few years ago, a man named William Digby sent me an email.  He is an Australian chap, a senior investment professional, I gather.  I did...

  I am a parochial American who has never traveled south of Mexico and haven't paid much attention the popular music in South America.  ...

  I escaped my hometown of Evanston IL for a few days, with two adult children and four small dogs in tow.  My thoughts and emotions have be...

  I am a SciFi/Fantasy nerd.  Star Trek, Star Wars, Ursula K. LeGuin, Heinlien, Asimov, Dune, Lord of the Rings - I love all that shit.  My ...

  There is a suburb in the San Francisco Bay Area that is a paragon of diversity.   According to the 2010 census, the town is 23.3% White, 1...

Covid-19 has completely upended our lives.  The virus has killed over 149,000 people; it looks like we will be well over a quarter of a mill...

Here is a true story that opened my eyes to a rather basic fact. From 2003 until 2010, I fronted a blues band.  When you are a harmonica pla...

Sonny Rollins

This is a bad selfie I took of myself some time back, riding the North Line Metra train from Main Street in Evanston down to Chicago's L...

I guess I learned about Vulfpeck about three or four years ago.  This group has attracted quite a bit of attention, and there are some gr...

Sometimes I just stop doing something for no particular reason.  I used to have a blog.  It was a van...

I have been fortunate - I have visited Puerto Rico several times.  I am particularly fond of Culebra, a small island off the east coast o...

One of the things that we all hear from someone in our lives is "I have no regrets."  On the face of it, this sounds admirable....

I have never blogged about politics.  There are so many folks that work that turf on a full-time basis, and most of them are loud and ven...

Tomorrow is Father's Day.  It is one of those made-up holidays,  a guilt-inducing, greeting card industry sham.  I have always told my...

Here are some things I read and heard today that grabbed me, caught my attention: "To pay for their first date, he sold a ...

This year is winding to a close, and I say good riddance.  This seems to be what I say at the end of every year.  Why don't I ever sa...

So we are fast approaching Christmas and we have been assaulted by the repetitious holiday soundtrack for the past eight weeks.  The trou...

I grew up in a segregated suburb in Northern California.  It was mostly white, with a smattering of Hispanic and Asian folks.  There was ...