Forgive me, readers, for it has been eight months since my last confession…I mean Blog Post. Where has that time gone? And more importantly, what was I doing with that time? Well, among [...]
“Love Is the Better Way” from SOUNDS CRAZY. Several of the songs on Sounds Crazy go back a way. “Love Is the Better Way” reaches back further than most. I wrote its first iteration in the early [...]
As kids returning to school in the fall, most of us knew that at some point in the first week of class we’d have to write a “What I Did on My Summer Vacation” essay. If you [...]
When I was young and foolishly sure of myself, my song lyrics too often had the tendency to focus on what the listener should do to get his or her life right. I call these kinds of songs “You [...]
Last week I attended my first day of school. Let me clarify. “Professor” Sterling (sounds weird, right?) met with a small group of students on Saturday morning (yikes!) for the first of fourteen [...]
I recently released a solo project. We used to call them albums. Then we called them CDs. Now I just go with “project” – because CDs have pretty much disappeared, and albums (LPs) are only for [...]
I’m a guy who mostly lives in the “right now.” I never thought too much about yesterday, and probably never thought enough about tomorrow. Composing and producing music (often on a deadline), [...]
Most of us have been “pigeonholed,” or creatively typecast at some point in our lives. For all I know, it’s human nature to reduce another person to a particular thing, so we can better identify [...]
I love the movie, The Princess Bride. William Goldman’s brilliant screenplay is one of the most quotable scripts of the last twenty years. And one such line happened when Miracle Max [...]
Robert Sterling’s For Unto Y’All is a delightful gospel musical based on the Biblical Nativity story… In this version, however, whilst the characters’ and town names remain the same [...]
