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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 22, 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


Knife and Gun Clubs
Most people remember the scene from the Blues Bros. movie with the band playing in one of those bars with the chicken wire in front of...

Luke Sommer Glenn
Mar 20, 20244 min read


How I Got My High School Diploma
I started hating school shortly after puberty. It was repetitive and not very interesting. If it weren't for hooking up socially I'd had...

Luke Sommer Glenn
Mar 11, 20243 min read


The Embalmers Children or Boys Are Gross
The kiln door opens and the art teacher screams with fright at the shrunken heads with toothy grins staring at her through twinkling...

Luke Sommer Glenn
Mar 7, 20243 min read


Judgement Day
After my first time busted https://www.lukesommerglenn.com/post/first-time-busted I had to travel back north to face the music. I...

Luke Sommer Glenn
Mar 5, 20247 min read


Pulling the Ox Out of the Ditch
The show must go on! New Year's Eve 1989. A bar in Kissimmee, Fl on what was the outskirts of town. The Brass Rail or Oak Rail, no...

Luke Sommer Glenn
Feb 19, 20244 min read


HELLO, I’m…. Brain Damage, Personal Guru
I had come off the road with the Photons leaving half the band in South Dakota to have fun with the winter, I am DONE with being cold if...

Luke Sommer Glenn
Jan 22, 20246 min read


Local Transitioning
Space 1999...could've been '96...I suck at time but it was Windley Key not actually space though you could still get there from here, the...

Luke Sommer Glenn
Jan 19, 20244 min read


Updates, Clarifications and Nonsense
I get asked quite a bit about how I'm feeling and I usually say, "With my hands". Some of you might remember that as a three stooges joke...

Luke Sommer Glenn
Jan 15, 20243 min read


The America I Know
The band was on I-90 between Sioux Falls and Rapid City, South Dakota. As a soul travels on I-90 you can't help but notice all the...

Luke Sommer Glenn
Dec 22, 20233 min read
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