The new and improved Zen Jam web site is now live! Redesigned and content-managed, the site will now be much easier to keep up-to-date, and it includes a blog which, if I’ve set up my options correctly, will echo posts or links to posts to my Linked-in and Facebook pages….

The Noonan Building is a three-story wood-frame warehouse building, dating from World War II, located on Pier 70 in San Francisco. The building has been used as artist studios for at least the last 40 years, and I happen to be one of the current tenants. We have a good…

Just finished doing two pro bono newspaper ads for some friends of mine back in Hawaii. The ads were taken out by a number of concerned citizens in response to the United States Government’s use of drones to do targeted killings in Pakistan and elsewhere. As I sympathize with their…

I had one of those moments this morning that your public radio station likes to tout when they are fundraising: I pulled into the parking lot at my studio, and just as I was about to shut the car off this story begins on my old clarinet teacher from junior…

We recently launched a new web site for San Francisco-based singer-songwriter Mary Kelley, officially titled “Mary Kelley Music.” We have been working together for a few years now, producing recordings, arranging tunes, playing instruments and even co-writing some songs with her. The Tumblr-based web site finally gives Mary an anchor for her material,…