I played the guitar off and on in college and later. In 2012, and I'm not sure why, I picked it up again and also learned the electric bass. I played the bass in The No Cover Band, which gigged at a bar on Park Avenue South in Manhattan. We only did originals, and one was my song "I Like," which was a straight blues number.

I also started writing songs, first on a guitar I bought at Manny's on 48th Street years ago. Many of my songs were ballads, i.e., little stories. I performed sets of them on my acoustic at a coffee house and at my sister's NYC apartment.

When I thought of writing stories, my first one was based on "Going to California." I had to switch it so it was mostly set in New York and then had to dramatically expand it. But I had my main character, and the novel is Coming to Terms.

I haven't written songs since I've been writing stories. I decided to put them together. There are a lot of them. I tried to wean them out and put them in some kind of order. They are not poems but lyrics.

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