Remember the abandoned military sanitarium from a few months back? Well, I grabbed a buddy, a couple of flashlights and replacement brown pants and headed into the unknown inside. What a beautiful sunny

Bite sized riffs series. The intro riff and guitar tablature are shown and played in this video. Guitar interpretation of Metallica's classic song from the album 'Master of Puppets'. If you enjoyed this

Once you know a storm is coming, the only sensible actions are to either protect yourself or to get out of the way. And so it has become time to roll up the Jay’s Bar show and move along. If we simply

Thanks for the challenge @meluni Danke für die Herausforderung @meluni Day 5: I nominate @fromhell2sky. Have fun! ;) Tag 5: Ich gebe die Herausforderung an @fromhell2sky weiter. Viel Spaß! ;) 👔 These

I often design my poems as if they were lyrics to a song, it makes for better rhymes and musicality in the delivery. Some actually become songs, as did this one, even though I never recorded more than

Last Wednesday was my day to reorient myself. I end up doing that from time to time, and I think it's essential, given the complexity and pressures of modern life... and very certainly so, given the

* After I left the big breakup at the sanitarium, I spent a few days ruminating on it all. I took a couple phone calls from Esther and another from Johnny (who was worried for Esther). I was hoping that

Last week young Esther asked me back to the sanitarium and told me that the people there “wanted to talk.” I was reasonably sure that the meeting was prompted by Dora's cancer diagnosis – she seemed to

As I sat with the TCM crew at Jay’s (for those who don’t recall, TCM means the creatively maladjusted), I realized that they were living up to their name. The ideas they came up with for the sanitarium

I found the Mueller Sanitarium for the Chronically Ill a few blocks from a place I worked back in the 1980s. It sits almost by itself, at least if you don’t count parking lots, and only a block or so from

Back in 1913, an Illinois doctor named C.H. Diehl bought Welch Spring for eight hundred dollars. Dr Diehl believed that the spring water had healing properties and that cool, pollen free air coming from