2018 – Coming Together and Fighting for Common Good

New Year’s Day was simple. We enjoyed Japanese-style dishes and sake with a young Japanese family friend. I recalled how Dad did not quite make it to age 37 (two months…

2008 – Figuring Things Out

January was a trying time for me particularly in terms of my role at Tee Jay High School. I found the level of organization and unity amongst the staff, student body, and parents to be…

2013 – Creating New Foundations

January 1^st of 2013 was my first New Year based in Brooklyn since 2008. In 2009, I left for New Delhi, India. In 2010, I was in Bahia, Brazil. In 2011, I moved to…

1986 – Transitions and East 35^th Street

In January, the world of music entertainment saw some excitement though as a five-year old I was not aware. The first group of musicians were inducted into the new Rock and Roll…

2002 – Music Mania

The New Year was marked with a sense of unknown energy, some exciting and some sad. New musical frontiers lie ahead of me and simultaneously Modus Tollens seemed to be losing its spark to continue. Jason…

1982 – The Sheridan Trio – Making it Work

My family was living in a small walk-up apartment on the second floor of a house at 4120 Bedford Avenue (between Avenues U and T). Dad was working nights at the…

1999 – Exploration, Separation, and New Path

The memory of New Year’s Eve was awesome, in that haunting, guilty-for-enjoying-my-life kind of way. I had enjoyed private time with Ella, drinking with friends and then goofing around with Jason into the…

2005 – Flirting with My Shadow

Levelsix was entering its peak state. We were regularly rehearsing, meeting, planning, and semi-frequently performing. We were focusing on developing our band image and experimented with dark themes in a photo shoot in January.…

2006 - Release of the Rock Star Dream

As the New Year dawned, I had the feeling that 2006 would either make or break Levelsix. The band was at a crossroads. We had achieved some measures of success, yet overall…

2004 – Mysteries, Mazes, Musical Manifestations

After the Cornucopia CD release party, I began to let The Pencil People project dissolve of itself naturally. It seemed whenever I culminated one project, I lost motivation to promote it and preferred to…