You know, I always wondered how one person could wrangle control of an entire country, as I ponder day-to-day life in a place like Russia or North Korea. Therefore, I am super thankful to be treated to a real-time demonstration, watching our beacon-of-the-world crumble into a sad pile of corruption. Once upon a time, no…

As our country continues to unravel and fall apart in so many unbelievable and insane ways, one must dwell on bigger issues. For instance, I wonder how I am supposed to figure into all this social/political upheaval and what this forced education in extreme human cruelty and weakness will teach me. Because, no matter what…

I’m not sure exactly when I locked-on to polka as a guiding light in my life, but I think it was in 1977. Tim Walsh (Brave Combo’s original woodwind player) hired me to play piano for ballet classes at NTSU (North Texas State University, now the University of North Texas), in Denton, in 1978, and…