I really had each foot in a different musical tradition [...]

In the fall of 1978, I began driving the seventeen [...]

[Photo: Sufi house Petaluma, CA, residents, Francine in center, late [...]

After high school I enrolled at San Jose State College [...]

I want to back up a bit. In my last [...]

My awkward pre-teen and early teen years were spent at [...]

(Photo is insecure Francine at 12) During the time I [...]

Kindergarten, I'm far left second row My mother [...]

Here’s my last, and long, post about our trip in [...]

After gypsy jazz the night before in Paris, it was [...]