Story and Pictures

Mountainous, massive, moving structures,. Hundreds of miles of mist and cotton balls float across the sky, their shadows float across the earth. They carry rivers in the sky, dump a continent’s worth of water, drop whirling winds that touch the ground and produce unstoppable, destructive messengers that remind us

To veterans everywhere

Part 2 of a spur of the moment cross country road trip to San Francisco in 1977, Journey playing a three-night gig in SF and showcasing 'new' singer Steve Perry, hanging with the band, and how it all changed my life. From a journal that shouldn't still exist!

A break before I post Part 2 of the Journey journal tale, which goes up later this week. October 9th. Is it maudlin to observe this 'anniversary'? I have this internal push and pull every year about it, and we were talking with friends very recently about how

Steve Jobs died on this date in 2011. He changed the world. That's it. In many ways, the world still turns on his inventions, innovations, and esthetics. Steph Adams made sure the world knew Jobs and knew about what Jobs wanted us to know. In the process the

September and October have multiple music-related anniversaries for me, but October also includes a fairly harsh one: on October 9th, 2017, historic California fires destroyed more than 10,000 structures across Sonoma county, including almost 6,000 Santa Rosa homes, among them the one that used to be on the

America’s heart wrenching, maddening, industry fed and intransigently misanthropic gun culture placed upon on a harshly lit pedestal for all to ponder this madness that is us.

And here we go again, somewhat appropriately since next week I’ll post about the passing of a great scientist and his massive contribution to humanity’s continuing existence: vaccines. But for now, the ‘here we go again’ refers to voting. Not the act itself, but the counting of votes.

A new feature and stories, and If Steve Then Steph is #1 on Amazon! (well, technically... and now it's a 'was')

First, thanks to everyone who has visited and everyone who has signed up as a member. I know there are many ways to use your downtime, and I vow to present stories and perspectives that will make it worth spending some of that downtime here. I'll post the