Susan Crowe

When the weather shifts

First: thanks, Brandon, for the offer to look into my server trouble. You are a prince.
Second:
The blogs are sporadic, I know. But look outside. Grass. Flowers. Intermittent sun. Blogging or being outside. Which would you choose?
Neighbours have appeared beyond the fence wearing dirty clothes, the inexplicably popular Crocs, broad-brimmed hats or ball caps or devil-may-care [...]

Our gal in the GPS device

Her name is Serena. I’m not overly fond of her voice, but I’m obliged to listen to it if I want to stay out of travel trouble. I’m used to her now, having accompanied her on many forays into unknown territory. In unfamiliar regions, with hard deadlines to honour, Serena’s the gal. Some are not as [...]

Relax

For the last three weeks, the nails on my right hand have been breaking at an unprecedented rate. I’m no fan of long nails, but I need at least two to play guitar adequately. My index finger and my…er…other pointing finger, the middle. Sometimes the ring finger, but it’s not strictly necessary.
The middle finger has [...]

Decisions, mistakes, and what’s in between

It has to be said – or maybe not – that I’ve made a lot of bad decisions in my life.
Here’s an incomplete list of bad decisions:

Took the advice of an aspiring make-up artist and ended up looking like a Geisha girl wearing a lipstick that was wrong. Very wrong.
Once, on a whim in Montreal, [...]

let me in

I had occasion today to talk to a lovely and patient man in another part of the world. I reached him in a circuitous way, by means of several 1-800 numbers and many, many touch-tones.
Why? I forgot a password. One of 60 passwords, it turns out. I know the exact number because I opened my [...]

Shiny toys

In a time long gone and almost slipped from memory, I owned a cassette tape recorder that served the purpose of catching bits of melody that were in danger of fading from consciousness. It ran on an AC adaptor or two AA batteries. It was cheap. Tapes were cheap. Short of a reel-to-reel recorder, this [...]

List of lists…and some listening.

Years ago, I flipped through a book at a friend’s house and have since regretted not buying my own copy. It was a books of lists written many years ago, if I recall, by a Japanese woman of noble birth. The noble birth was what allowed her, I suppose, to spend years writing lists. Likes, [...]

Long day ended

It’s been a day of endless small details, dropped server connections, lost tax numbers and a numb backside from sitting at the computer. Uploads, downloads, emails, answered and unanswered phone calls. Not a musical day. Not even a thoughtful day.
There are guitars hanging on the wall of my small studio. I walk by it dozens [...]

A brush of air

Regard the picture above. It’s the inside photo of Greytown, and it is largely untouched (photographically  speaking – I’m often moved to pat it affectionately, but that’s for another day).
There was a bit if a fuss over the decision to not airbrush it. When I nixed it and had the CDs in hand, more than one [...]

Crosswalks IDs

My morning agenda included errands, and lots of them. Post office, bank, shoe store, drug store, grocery store, and liquor store (every afternoon should feature Prosecco or some equally satisfying apertif). In addition to these run of the mill tasks, I threw in having a key cut.
I drove to do my errands. I would have [...]