Seriously? Who writes songs in Benicia? I know this old eccentric guy in Benicia, lives up in the hills, comes down from time to time to water his dogs and attends open mics and occasionally sings a song he’s written at a BenLit event at the Rellik Tavern on First Street or maybe at an […]

My song, “I’ve Been Better and I’ve Been Worse,” was literally written in the Raley’s Benicia parking lot, maybe 2005 or earlier. True story. At the end of a hard working day, a polite, energetic young male checkout clerk greeted me, the next in line with, “How are you?” as he buoyantly began to ring […]

I’ll be the first (or last) to admit it, but there’s an unknown mystique and a magic to it. Of all the poems I’ve written since the early 1970s, and that could easily be a few thousand, I’ve only written maybe these 16 songs and all but one or two are up on Youtube.com. They […]