Tom Volhein

I am having a good morning.  Lately, for the past few weeks, I have been spending mornings and afternoons at a local cafe, Wildflower.  That is where I am right now.  For the most part it is to kill time away from the house.  What I haven’t confessed on this blog is that, since April [...]

Well, it happened.  Yesterday I was talking with a friend and she mentioned that she got out of the market when the DOW hit 10K – went into a CD.  This was the moment I was dreading.  I already felt ashamed, and was just waiting for the moment when I could feel even worse about [...]

I spend a lot of time worrying about being 61, what it means to me and what it means for my future – more to the point, the lack of future.  Too often, the more excited I get about the things that I am doing and the things that I want to do, the more [...]

Ron,
I am spending the morning on line watching all the news channel videos, and reading all the reports, reliving the whole amazing thing. I am in tears most of the time. I can’t believe the affect this is having on me. What I am remembering is when Bobby Kennedy was killed. [...]

For a few months now, I have experienced a lack of dreams and enthusiasm. During this time, I would list for myself all of the things that I wanted to do. But as I created these lists and plans, daily through life-long desires, I felt little or no passion. I knew in [...]

This week, we did the best we could to go about our lives, not knowing when it would happen. I had my regular Tuesday gig, a paying gig on Thursday, and a music gathering scheduled for Saturday night to prep for. Linda had work.

Frances, Linda’s mom, followed Linda and me from her front door to our car. It was the evening that I met Linda’s parents, or at least one of the first times that the four of us spent any significant time together. The visit was easy, as it always was with Linda’s folks, and [...]

A time for setting goals, hitting the ground running.  For example, I work out at a local health club and I promise you that in January the place will be packed, full of folks getting back into the swing of things – starting off with their resolutions and new goals.  But is January first really [...]

I realized this morning that I have returned to the habit of getting things done. When I took up music and my art this last time, I embraced them with the implicit intention of enjoying the work, not waiting for happiness until the work was done – crossing projects off of a list with [...]

I have been worried about some things since I started playing music again – since about a year or so ago. There are a couple of areas where these worries reside, both having to do with how old I am, and both of which I have probably touched on before. First, the notion [...]