May 2025 – Under The Table

I pray every day for an end to the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza. Sometimes I pray by playing the piano and intoning Gaza while visualizing a time when the women and children and men in Gaza will live in peace and have sufficient food and water.

Here are links to my piano prayer Gaza on Apple and YouTube. Any pennies I get from Apple downloads, and any tiny fractions of pennies I get from streams of Gaza will be donated to Doctors Without Borders who are doing all they can to help in Gaza. I get no pennies from Spotify because they only monetize songs that get more than a thousand streams.

The government of the United States is the main funder of Israel’s ongoing blockade of aid to Gaza and continuing bombing of civilians in Gaza. I write to my Congresspeople asking them to stop voting to send more military aid to Israel, but so far they keep voting to fund the genocide.

I pray every day for the coming of peace to Gaza.

Hello dear readers.

On the first of May – purely by chance – the streamable/downloadable songs from my wonderful new album Hip Salon AND the audio book edition of my new novel The Farm at the East Cove Hotel went live.

I’m happy to post the Hip Salon links here for you and for anyone you want to share them with. To pique your curiosity, here is a list of the tracks from my new album along with brief descriptions of those tracks.

1. Hip Salon a bluesy tribute to those who cut our hair while we bare our souls – with groovacious drumming and fab backing vocals

2. Jealous piano and solo voice

3. A Question For You solo piano

4. Troo Romanz a piano/drums duet

5. Gaza piano and voices – a prayer for peace

6. Everything Is Something solo piano

7. Remembrance a poem

8. Everybody Has To Breathe a cappella – four voices

9. Another Question For You solo piano

10. When Is It Done? a story with music

Here are Links for streaming and downloading the songs of Hip Salon.

Hip Salon at Apple Music

Hip Salon on YouTube

Regarding the audio book of The Farm at the East Cove Hotel, I had a marvelous time narrating the novel and inhabiting the many characters with their wonderful voices and accents and personalities. Here is the Audible link, and for those who don’t want to join Audible, a link to the same narration from Apple. You can listen to the free sample at Audible to get a taste of my narration and hear Marcia’s lovely cello music that concludes each chapter. And handsome paperbacks are available from all good bookstores.

Audible The Farm at the East Cove Hotel

Apple The Farm at the East Cove Hotel

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