A comprehensive directory for Day Tripping About seventeen years ago, I had the occasion to visit a new museum that opened near Trafalgar square in London, UK. The display was divided into two sections, the first being a walkthrough of the bunker offices where Churchill and his command team operated during WWII. The second part of…

Life is filled with Crossroads. Choosing those which fire the imagination — As we move through life we are met with choices. If you move slowly, the choices are bountiful, and sometimes too many. So you speed up a bit, travelling past successive crossroads at a pace where a decision isn’t an option. Then, you find you’re moving faster and faster, and…

At least, my family thinks I am — The play on words aside, a better fiction writer is what I aspire to be, and reading better writers like Liam Ireland and Britni Pepper inspire me to pick up my game. Finding these terrific writers on ILLUMINATION-Curated and ILLUMINATION has somehow lit a fire in my brain. Their inspiration…

How to get more from your viewing experience — Movies of the past still hold magical powers of imagery and symbolism that resonate today. If you appreciate the artistry and detail that goes into filmmaking and you would like to explore cinema’s rich and diverse history with a discerning eye, please join me on a journey of rediscovery. …

But the person will be sorrowly missed — During the mid-nineteen sixties, the British band The Yardbirds produced three of the greatest rock guitarists in history in the early to mid-sixties. Jimmy Paige and Eric Clapton went on to enjoy enormous commercial success during their careers. The other was guided by another path, creating a log of golden…

That everyone can afford — As another Christmas season sneaks up on us, once again we wonder, “where did the time go?” Still, rushing around to cross loved ones off our lengthy shopping lists, we often forget about how many others intersect our lives. Our patience wears thin when all we want is to just…

Necessity is the mother of rock anthems — Fifty-one years ago today, a single event on a European lakeside changed the course of one group’s fortunes in ways they never expected. …

If lefty had lived on — The best of what became the Golden Rock Era owes its success to the creators of the twelve-bar sound. Blues greats blazed a trail up the Mississippi River all the way to Chicago, leaving a trail for younger generations to emulate. But out of the West came the person who…

Now I’m missing the inaction — A week stretches into a month, and a month becomes three. And just like that, you begin to lose touch with the creative community where you once belonged. Swept up in the tide of reawakening life, you shuffle along the corridors of the daily grind, too focused on reacquainting yourself…