Category: Guest Posts

You're lucky you don't feel you have to hide. I wrote those words in a song called 'Hide' a few years ago. I don't know exactly who I was singing them to, but the sentiment was clear to me: there are just some things that we feel we have to keep hidden. What we think,...

I wrote my new album with my uncle, Dave Hodges, in a Google doc over the course of the past year. Dave is a structural engineer who has a degree in aerospace engineering, owns his own firm, doesn't wear shoes, is aggressively Roman Catholic, has eight children,...

Watch us turn into eagles that fly. Look in my eyes, people realise... You must mobilise... -- from "Fag" by Matthew Barton The first thing I saw in my mind when I wrote "Fag" was an army. Well, a kind of army. I saw a growing band of rainbow warriors, poised to turn...

Wild Daydream (Simeon Williams of Arlington TX) and Cowboy Grizzly (Grant McMahan of Austin TX) have been collaborating for many years. In younger days they played together in a band called The Black Hills. More recently, Simeon was the producer/mixer for Grant's...

Hi. I'm Fluffy, the cat. Today the Food Guy has a pre-existing condition to shovel compost in the back yard, so I have to write his log post for the Winternet. I am writing about a song called 'I Miss You, Like Sunday' by Will Orchard. I enjoy Sundays in the Fall. I...

Each person who enters your life leaves an entry on your page. Some people post stories of happiness, others post only pictures of cats. Some test you and challenge you to be better, some share their experiences and offer you lessons. Some people unfollow...

When I listened to 'Brother Stomach' by The Dead Shakers, I heard a deeply personal song that I did not completely understand. I knew that the story behind the song could be told only by the artist who created it. Kevin Bloom has given us a story full of details......

Hi, it’s me again. Fluffy the Cat. Sometimes the Food Guy let's me write his log post and then he puts it on the Winternet. I live with two friends named Milkshake and Cucumber. Milkshake doesn't write about music because she has too much altitude attitude. Cucumber...

We spend our lives building relationships that give our lives meaning. We spend our lives building an intricate web of these that depict our loved ones. Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia are the thieves that rob an entire lifetime of these memories and replace it with...

My mom's family lived in a tiny hamlet called Davis, in West Virginia. My brother and I grew up in Florida, and one year when I was very young my folks decided to truck us up there for Christmas so the family could be together and my brother and I could see snow. We...