This has been another hard week for America. In case anyone wondered if this administration and its lackeys could sink any lower, now you know. I wrote a new song this week. I will record it this year. For obvious reasons, it’s called Heaven and Earth. HEAVEN AND EARTHHEAVEN AND EARTHSEE WHAT YOU’RE DOINGAND KNOW Read more

It was a soft morning, before I could speak. I could hear well enough, and I knew how to say words, but none of them were the right ones. It was snowing. Maybe that’s what made it a soft morning. That was definitely part of it, that “freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.” But there Read more

I went to see Bernie Williams at Carnegie Hall last week. It was strange to hear such accomplished musicianship coming from a man who won a batting title as centerfielder for the Yankees. But the more I thought about it the less strange it seemed. Athletes and artists have a lot in common. Both know Read more

I am an immaterial ethereal manPeople pass through me and don’t even noticeI am as substantial as a breathor heartbeatI am as alive as my thoughtsI am at home outside this universeI am lost nowhereI am never aloneI am on firea puff of smokedissolvingI was there when the sun started shiningI will be there when Read more

When you put a convicted felon in charge of your criminal justice system, you know what’s going to happen: he will pardon people who commit crimes on his behalf, or who commit crimes and give him a lot of money, and he will file charges against any lawyer, district attorney, or judge who tries to Read more