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At 2am on the last night of the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop, Andy Hillhouse barged into the camp office where Morgan (a fellow camper) and I were jamming the blues on an acoustic bass and a resonator guitar. “There you are!” he said. “We’re going swimming. Do you want to come?” Andy had been my Celtic guitar teacher for the …

On Friday I returned from my first week at the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop. I expected a relaxing week of casual fingerpicking, swimming, and strumming Kumbaya around the campfire. Instead, it turned out to be a profound educational and spiritual experience. I returned home electrified. I’ve got a bunch of photos of the week posted here. Here’s an overview of …

My photos from the aforementioned trips are now available here.

Hey Everyone, Long time no blog! I’ve been traveling a lot this past month. My first adventure was a weeklong canoe trip down fifty miles of the Green River in Utah’s Canyonlands National Park. Six friends, my sweetheart Christine, and I braved 100+ degree heat, quicksand, swarms of kamikaze mosquitoes, and severe cold beer depravation to explore this incredibly quiet, …

Here’s a quick note for all you feedsters: I believe I’ve fixed the RSS problem on the site. Subscribe away! I guess since this internet thing is supposed to be a web, it’s no surprise the bugs always have the upper hand….

Big Fuzz tossed me a musical baton tonight. This is one quiz I can ace…. Total volume of music in my PC: 20.57GB of mp3’s, plus another 60GB or so of tracks I’ve recorded The last CD I bought: Exile on Main Street – Rolling Stones Song playing right now: Gone – Jack Johnson Five songs I listened to a …

For the past two years, I’ve been teaching out of a one-bedroom apartment in a building with paper-thin walls. During that time, my business grew from a handful of students to about thirty-five. While my neighbors have generally been gracious with their noisy neighbor, I’ve decided that it’s time to move and give them some peace and quiet. So starting …

Sorry about the absence. I’ve been exploring the exciting world of Domain Transfer for the past couple weeks. All I’ve got to say is, it’s good to be home. How do you like the new format? It should be a lot more flexible for me, and easier for you. Let me know what you think.

You hear a lot of talk about computers isolating people from each other, and I think in many cases that’s true, especially if your job involves staring at a screen all day. But computers also have great power to bring people together over long distances. I’ve had visitors from India, Sweden, Singapore come to this blog and drop a note. …