THE VIEW FROM SIGNAL HILL

One of my grandmothers was a farmer, although nobody called her that. Instead, people considered her a farmer’s wife, although she milked cows, grew vegetables, harvested apples and cooked the meals that kept everybody else who worked on the farm going. Read More...

Writers, like musicians, are notorious for leading double lives. We have our day jobs, which pay us the wages we need for things like groceries and the mortgage, and our side jobs that usually involve artistic expression that would be out of place (or wholly inappropriate) in our other work. Read More...

Music is on the minds of the Signal Hill team these days! My colleague Scott recently wrote a perceptive piece about how memory and music are intertwined. Read More...