Remembering Miss Ina

Miss Ina on her porch at Hard Labor, Coral Bay, St. John US

Remembering Miss Ina

The following vignettes have been collected over my twenty-five years as a visitor, part-time resident and working musician on the Caribbean island of Saint

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Trumbull & Trio: The Making of the Digby Video

Doug Trumbull Meets David Reed @ Gedney Farm – May 2016

Trumbull & Trio

The Making of The Digby Video

Diagnosis: Mind totally blown. Those who've known me awhile have likely suspected something was awry - and now I can…

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For the Love of Three Oranges

For the Love of Three Oranges
(with apologies to play write Carlo Gozzi and composer Sergei Prokofiev)

I am fortunate to be staying in an area of north Florida that's within a small, pleasant wildlife preserve. Boardwalks and paths meander

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Goin' to the Dawgs?

 

Spoiler Alert: I originally set out to simply write a review of a restaurant that friends had been encouraging me to try for a couple of years. However, I found that as I wrote, my restaurant review had morphed into

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Let 'im Eat Cake!

 

“I got you a treat,” my good wife said to me as she continued to empty a bag of groceries onto the counter.

“Thank you, Peach,” I replied. “What's the occasion?”

“You've just endured surgery and will need a few…

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A Real Phish Story

Max Creek, circa 1972 at The Rockinghorse Pub in Hartford, CT    -    Bob, David, Mark & John

It was just before Christmas. A fresh, clean snow blanketed the world outside my window, a fire crackled in the wood stove and…

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Mystery of IED Solved

 

Mystery of IED Solved

You just can’t make this stuff up. Really. You just can't. 

It was a dark, bitter cold night actively being strangled by February's frozen fingers. Gusts of wind rattled and shook the old windows, threatening intrusion…

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2006: The Advent of Analog Man in a Digital World

 

                                                                                                

             2006: The Advent of the Analog Man in a Digital World 

After casually observing my futile attempt to decipher the mysteries of the television remote control, pushing button after button in unsuccessful attempts to change channels and adjust the sound…

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The Soloist

 

The tarnished brass ashtray clattered down, spilling three day’s worth of its rank contents onto the worn out wooden boarding-house floor. Tanner Simmons, startled by the ashtray’s intruding descent, sat up suddenly from the disheveled nest he’d created upon the…

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