Chuck Perrin

I remember it as if it was yesterday – but it was, in fact, 28 years ago. The heat of July was infusing the year’s longest days with steamy blasts of humidity. I was holed up in San Francisco working on a recording of a song I had written called “Malibu Bay” with a couple… [ read more ]

There is a special poignancy surrounding Independence Day this year. The world keeps getting smaller. Every day we read and hear about the mounting protests – demonstrations against governments who repress and control the lives of their people. They may be ordinary people, like you and me, but they’ve learned, they know, they see –… [ read more ]

I was visiting my dad last week. He had just turned 91 and the morning of our third day together he suffered what physicians refer to as an event. In layman’s terms, it was a stroke – like a barreling bowling ball that knocks you off your pins, wiping out certain brain circuits, forcing you… [ read more ]