In Quest of the Perfect Song

The quest within us all

  • The Oldest Becomes the Newest: Part 2

    There were times during the 1980s when I would drive home from Mansfield University straight to the Little League field. I’d meet my wife and we’d have a sub for supper while watching our son, Nathan, play ball. Occasionally we’d go straight from a game to a concert in which Kim was performing. We’d get…

  • The Sweet Sound of Tapping

    When I started writing notes for The Perfect Song in the winter of 1979, my office was a converted bedroom in the basement of our small, rural ranch house. My typewriter was a Smith-Corona portable manual. You had to hit the keys fairly hard so the steel letters pushed the ink on the ribbon with…

  • The Oldest Becomes the Newest

    In Quest of the Perfect Song is my newest book. It’s also my oldest.The first book was The Perfect Song. I started it in 1979. My wife and I had two young children. I was two years into a job as assistant PR director at a small private college. I was making around $12,000 a…