In keeping with my previous post, I have more ukuleles heading my way at the moment.
I have a KoAloha long-necked soprano uke heading to me and an Oscar Schmidt OU280SWK concert-bodied solid Koa ukulele with beautiful inlay the entire length of the neck. The former is what many consider a top “professional” quality ukulele. The [...]

Passion, the word is too often connected with love. Funny, in “biblical” translation, that is from “Coine  Greek”, the word “love” is translated from these: “eros”, that is passion, “porneos”, that is “physical” love, and “agape”, that is “brotherly love” or “the love of God”.
The passion about which I write should not be connected to [...]

I love e-books. In fact, I started reading e-books on my Palm devices a long time ago. These days, I read e-books on a Palm Tunsten E2 and an iPod Touch. Yesterday in the wee hours of the morning, I ordered the newest “Kindle Reader”, version “III” –at $139 USD, it is a great value. [...]

Another business week has come and gone. It is early Saturday morning. Right now, it is fifty degrees and forecasts say that today will be a high of eighty-four with “abundant sunshine”. This is a perfect day for some rest and relaxation.
Relaxation is a lost art, it seems. I find myself wondering about people when [...]

At about 1:30 PM today the latest issue of Ukulele Player Magazine went live. It takes a lot of work to get there and it is always a relief to cut it loose and start watching the music forums and answer any questions and comments from the readers. We have almost 150,000 readers at this [...]

I have had a long string of busy weekends and this one is no exception. Today and tomorrow I am putting the next issue of Ukulele Player Magazine together. So, I have a lot to do. It is always enjoyable, though, working on something you love doing.
When people ask me how to get into writing [...]

Success typically conjures up images of money, but it shouldn’t necessarily be that way.
If success were always quantified by money, would there ever be enough?
Success is accomplishment, not money. If you are successful, though, money can follow– depending on what it is that you are doing and whether or not it is marketable. A lot [...]

I searched for an old friend online yesterday and found him, thanks to “social networking”, in this case, Linked-In.
Ralph Fraley was at one time my supervisor for a company that specialized in all things computers. We were a technical group and worked in a large comfortable office. Ralph was a former police officer and a [...]

One of the things I love most is getting together with my son. He is serving in the United States Army. He will be in town soon and is staying for just a few days, then it’s back to Bragg and to whatever mission comes next.
Whether anyone knows it or not, our military personnel put [...]

It’s now Saturday morning and things are returning to a more normal work pace for me. I have the next issue of Ukulele Player Magazine to release (soon) and things will return to a much more relaxed pace. That is good, because the summer is moving terribly fast and much of what I enjoy about [...]