I hope you are having a great day! ​ I’d like to share a couple of ideas and one of my favorite books. ​ The idea is to spend some time early in the day with a book that was written before the invention of the printing press. This idea

#3 Echo Chambers, Making Waves… I am trying to understand why I decided to do this sprint of writing daily emails and one of the things that keeps coming up for me is that I like to share ideas that fire me up. You hear a lot about how the

#2 Space is the Place… Another one of my online mentors is Seth Godin. He writes a short email that he sends out every day that he also curates in an archive so you can pull up previous posts. A few days ago he mused about how it is the

30 day email experiment – I challenged myself to write an email a day to a select list of people to see what would happen… I’m publishing the first 5 here at my website blog and this is #1: All right! – here we go… A little back story –

I sent this message out  December 14, 2020, and recently got some great feedback on it, so I am now including it in my blog… And to remind myself to do this exercise more often…   I hope you are doing well in spite of the pandemic and the general

Django Bells / How to Swing Christmas Tunes This Video is on my old youtube channel that got away from me – I can’t log into it anymore and it runs on with a life of its own – But it is one of my more popular videos over the

I have been accepted into the Hohner Affiliated Customizer program. What does this mean? It means that I have joined Joe Filisko and Joe Spiers as the 3 customizers in the United States who are recognized by Hohner as world class customizers. Joe Filisko inspired the creation of this program and

Before you can attach a harmonica reed with a screw you need to enlarge the hole in the rivet pad with a reamer or round file or similar tool. The tricky part is holding it firmly while you do this. It gets even trickier when you are dealing with stainless

Harmonica Tool Freaks! The R. Sleigh Reed Tool is now in final stages of tweaking and will be in production very soon. At this point (June 20th, 2015) I’m waiting to get reed tools delivered to me so I can ship them out to the people who ordered them through