On Christmas morning, I found myself sitting in my truck, outside the Emergency Room of a small, rural health clinic. I was told to stay in the truck and a nurse would come out and administer the Covid test. Yep,ole Santa got me sick for Christmas. The nurse showed up in a few minutes and [...]

Put this together a few years ago without much concern for production values. Just listened again after several years. https://soundcloud.com/user-359965116/my-song-4/s-RmOS5

Today I found myself inside Costco, the large warehouse chain store in the U.S., perhaps they are elsewhere, not sure. As my wife was shopping for fruits and vegetables, I was mesmerized with a display of gloves. They were the sportwear brand, HEAD, and were labeled as "running gloves." Now, I am not about to [...]

Storyteller's First Story: Words and Numbers (Not Music/storytelling) by gary a. mcmahon on #SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/user-359965116/storytellers-first-story-words-and-numbers-not-musicstorytelling/s-sCjnyXwxRAZ I wrote this little tale casually without much editing. I then recorded it as I plucked the guitar. I just listened to it again after 6 years later. Little puppy Gracie is on the cover of the "song." I just [...]

Too chilly to work in the yard today, so I decided to take a little drive. Lassen Peak from just above the northern Sacramento Valley floor. It is an active volcano and the most southern mountain in the Cascade Range. South of Lassen, the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range begins. All the rocks in the foreground [...]