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The Speeders
The other evening driving to Marathon, I was stuck behind one of those people that slow down to 20 miles an hour every time they get...

Luke Sommer Glenn
Jan 13, 20255 min read


The Grand Illusions
The more I hurry, the faster I fall behind and the world seems to conspire against me...

Luke Sommer Glenn
Jan 1, 20254 min read


Willfully Incognizant
A long time ago I realized that life on planet Earth makes no sense. Despite the best efforts of the invisible ruling class, I turned out...

Luke Sommer Glenn
Dec 27, 20244 min read


Bugged
Saw this lizard munching on a palmetto bug and flashed back to a gig a few years back. We were playing on the deck behind Three Amigos...

Luke Sommer Glenn
Dec 2, 20244 min read


Free My Assterisk
The wife killed another phone. Everyone has their tormentors on planet Earth and for my wife, it’s technology (though I do get her...

Luke Sommer Glenn
Sep 27, 20246 min read


Feeling With My Hands
I just finished doing six gigs in a row, something I've not been able to do since January 2020, when I had congestive heart failure at...

Luke Sommer Glenn
Sep 24, 20244 min read


Critters Part 2: Passings
Our super handsome, big, gray, male tabby cat passed peacefully at home in the wife's lap on a Sunday recently. He was 17. We got him...

Luke Sommer Glenn
Sep 11, 20245 min read


The Days End... Part 1
The Photons were playing at the Saloon 10 in Deadwood, SD. It was the time of year that the locals began planning for the Sturgis MC...

Luke Sommer Glenn
Aug 28, 20247 min read


Grad Night
The rest of the class of 1982 put on their mandatory suit and ties, evening gowns and got their hair and faces all fixed up to pile into...

Luke Sommer Glenn
Aug 25, 20244 min read


I Raced the Law...
Rural Florida, 3:00AM, convenience store parking lot, Monday night/ Tuesday morning, 1989, with nothing to do, all night to do it and...

Luke Sommer Glenn
Aug 25, 20245 min read


Complicity of Conscience
It was 4AM and Mia followed me outside. She quickly chased the little opossum that visits us nightly up the tree and proceeded to bark at...

Luke Sommer Glenn
Aug 15, 20245 min read


Surviving Slow Season
Into the depths of hurricane/wet/slow season with canceled shows, fewer people and fewer tips. To add insult to injury, a bored deputy...

Luke Sommer Glenn
Aug 6, 20245 min read


A Trip to Cinderella's Dungeon
A nationally chartered high school club was counting the money they had raised to pay for the paint the boys were supposed to use to...

Luke Sommer Glenn
Jun 23, 20245 min read


Can't Trust the Weather
It was 88 degrees that day in early June when the band pulled out of Orlando for a road trip that would eventually take us to Mackinac...

Luke Sommer Glenn
Jun 21, 20245 min read


Critters, Part 1
The morning walk with Mia the puppy dog. Timing is everything. Start too early, feed the bugs. Too late, get beat by the heat. It’s a...

Luke Sommer Glenn
Jun 6, 20244 min read


I Loved the Road Life
Four Post Meridiem (4PM) and the band begins to stir. Coffee to be sought out, morning joint to be smoked, teeth to be brushed... The...

Luke Sommer Glenn
Jun 2, 20245 min read


In the Days of My Youth
My mother was a life long professional educator, aka teacher, like so many others in my family. She was done having kids but that's not...

Luke Sommer Glenn
May 28, 20245 min read


Modern Problems; Artificial Feelings (Foul Language Warning)
I awoke one morning to my cell phones incessant beeping. I noticed the phone had sent a voice message to my elderly aunt Joanne who lives...

Luke Sommer Glenn
May 28, 20244 min read


2 4 1 Decades
I awakened 10 years ago half a century old. That's 50 years for you dullards out there. My compadre at the time T-Bonus Maximus Puppius...

Luke Sommer Glenn
Apr 22, 20244 min read


The Nature of Things
At 55 yoa I had congestive heart failure and as a result I have this nagging thrombosis in my left leg- an occlusion, a blockage. I've...

Luke Sommer Glenn
Apr 19, 20243 min read
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