The Life of Brian (In the Now)

About a forty five minute drive north of Portland, Oregon, is Forrest Grove. Settled in the 1840s, the town was platted in 1850, then incorporated in 1872, making it the first city in Washington County. Near the juncture of routes 47 and 8, is an old Masonic lodge that was converted by the McMenamins company, [...]

This photo of my friend Hawkins Wright and his son, is what it's all about. This trip, this my epic summer journey of 2018. I'm sitting now in the middle of the little stage (a carpet laid out on the ground) just a short time from playing my set. Hawkins will start the show and [...]

San Francisco Airport is as good a place as any to begin this, the more bloggy beginning of... Brian's Epic Summer Journey 2018I'm finding that there will be times when insufficient bandwidth seems to interfere with my ability to upload. I just now posted the photo I took yesterday as I walked from the house [...]

Epic summer journey 2018 travel blog Is NOW! To be continued...

Earlier this evening (technically yesterday thus the date incongruency) I tried uploading the above photo and write a post from my phone but... It failed to upload for some reason. Sorry dear reader, but I promise to get this fixed before I head out on my vacation. The Daily Brian Will pretty much become a [...]

Yesterday... ---- Paul McCartney 1965 ----------------------------------------- I'm tired, I'm sore. Feeling fat, inadequate, unloved. Unlovable. I haven't played my guitar in over a week. I have written a song in FOREVER! My throat feels like I've got another of those random, stupid, non-stop spasms of phlegm-laden shitty-assed coughing bouts coming on... Eeech!! Eeech!! Eeech!! Eeech!! [...]

Yesterday, I picked up a passenger at a location I not only had never been to before... I didn't even know it existed. That's saying a lot. I've been driving professionally on this island for over eleven years now, and living (and driving) on this tiny rock in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for [...]

I roll up to the first pickup of my shift. It's an address I've never been to before, but easy to find. I'm not right on time, but well within my thirty minute window. As I approach a woman is waiving at me. I open the door with my usual smile. "Good afternoon ma'am." The [...]

"Do you believe in Jesus?" "Excuse me?" "Do you believe in Jesus? You know... Jesus, Son of God, The Prince of Peace?" "Ummm... " I've been expecting a question like this. Since my first passenger of the day boarded at St. Frances Hospital, she has been praising Jesus with her every utterance. Along with a [...]

Yesterday... ------ My day starts by nearly filling my Handi-Van with passengers in wheelchairs, and my last one of the group is no exception. He lives in a public housing complex very near the heart of Honolulu called Mayor Wright Homes, which has been recently renovated. As I approach however, his building looks like it [...]