Category: music

‘Not Fade Away’ published in Syncopation Literary Journal

Cover image for Syncopation Literary Journal, Volume 4, Issue 1.
Cover of Syncopation Literary Journal, Volume 4, Issue 1

I’m proud to have my creative nonfiction essay “Not Fade Away” included in the latest edition of Syncopation Literary Journal (Volume 4, Issue 1). The theme of this issue is “Must Love Music,” and in my essay I try to connect to that theme by weaving together thoughts about a rock concert in the early 1980s, a band that was popular then and is still kicking, and the importance of keeping the power of creativity flowing throughout our years. I hope you’ll give it a read. And while you’re there, check out some of the other terrific writing in this and previous issues.

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Rusty

Yesterday I found myself in need of a change of pace, so instead of spending a bit of free time writing or editing, I picked up my acoustic guitar and played. I tuned the thing to double drop D, just to give myself a little more variety than the usual standard tuning and maybe exercise some different parts of my brain.

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‘You can do something extraordinary’

‘… if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to.’

I’ve played the guitar, on and off, since age 14, when I first picked up a well-word acoustic with a bowed neck for $10 because I wanted to learn how to play the opening to Led Zeppelin’s classic, “Stairway to Heaven.” (This was in the mid-1970s, long before the ditty became labeled as the forbidden riff supposedly banned from guitar stores the world over.)

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How to (appear to) disappear completely

Here’s a puzzler for you, my fellow higher ed marketers:

Let’s say you’ve got a big new thing to promote — a brand new academic offering, or a new crowdfunding campaign, or an event unlike any other before it — and you’re responsible for developing the rollout. What do you do? Continue reading “How to (appear to) disappear completely”