Even though I write (for fun, for real and forever), I would still say that music has always been the central element of my existence. Or the elemental center. Writing is a compulsion, a hobby, a skill, a craft, an obsession, a mystery and at times a burden. Music...

My personal mantra –and life goal– going back to my post-grad school existence, is somehow, some way eradicating the barriers between art and life; not merely living an artistic life or making time for creation, but celebrating art and life by being...

Winston Churchill famously remarked: “My vices protect me but they would assassinate you.” And he managed to achieve a thing or two in his time, decadent proclivities be damned. But his boast, equally self-aware and arrogant, invariably invokes the myriad stories of...