Dread of Winter

Everything is feeling the severity of what will surely be known here in New England as “the winter of 2015.” We had three (or four? I forget now) consecutive Mondays that featured at least a foot of new snow.   If one did not dread Mondays before, this winter has provided us with yet another reason to do so.  But because we New Englanders are stubborn and ornery, this very weather is one of the reasons we choose to live here.

The weather has put a dent in my rehearsal schedules.  In fact it looks like I will have attended only one rehearsal the entire month of February.   Luckily a gig at a private party with Unclaimed Freight mitigated an otherwise total loss in the live performance department.  I have made myself useful working on my own music to record in the studio sometime in the undefined future.

DHI published another article of mine in Doors and Hardware magazine this month:  “Butcher, Baker, Door Hardware Technician: It Can Take a Village to Fix a Door”, about the eclectic knowledge and cross-trade skills often needed to diagnose and treat today’s door and door hardware issues.   I’ll republish it sometime in March somewhere, I’ll let you know. 

Over at The Poetry Locksmith we continue to enjoy a variety of work by Donal Mahoney, and perennial contributors Carol Hamilton, Samuel Vargo, Christopher Hivner and others have returned with more of their fine work as well.  In addition we welcomed new poetry contributors Genevieve Barrons and Lana Bella.  Please stop by and read these intriguing poets.

Word has it we will soon be accepting works of short fiction as well as poetry.  I’ll let you know about that, too.

May your winter be filled with the Creative.