If all my patients/clients went as smoothly as the two musicians I'm working with, the whole world could be rehabbed in about a year. Old Blues Guy finished his weekend gig with such flair that his picture made the newspaper today! My sources report, as does he, that he was able to play just as great as always without touching a drink of alcohol or a hit of dope. That's 4 days of gigs in the hot sun and in a festival atmosphere! I couldn't be happier for him. This was something he thought could never be and now he is at the precipice of his future. As planned and promised, OBG made his plane yesterday and checked into a very reputable rehab setting in So Cal. He called me today to let me know that PREHAB has totally prepared him for what he is undergoing and he feels like he has a leg up on others there just starting their sobriety. They gave him zanex and he turned it down. Wow!Now, if he can stick it out, understand and obey their rules and, at least try to do AA work, he'll graduate from their and have new skills that will secure a healthier future for him, and by extension, his family.

Joe has been holed up in Sacramento for about 5 days now and he appears to be a real hit there! Evidently, he is just as charming without drugs as he is on them, and without the anger-fueled rages brought about by alcohol, he has made quite a few friends already. He has been attending one hot yoga class a day-minimum- and he is eating well, performing his adl's and, in general, doing really well! He has written another song (I think that's about 4 since he's been here). Of course, we are both still anxious about his well being when he returns to London in about 2 weeks time, but I have started making inroads there on his behalf. I'm trying to line up secure digs for him-maybe a sober living environment, and also trying to see if I can secure some volunteer work for him at a disability treatment center or some similar place. In doing this now I hope to create a "moving" situation for Joe so that he doesn't have alot of time to miss his old lifestyle and "friends".

Strangely quiet here, I can take some time out to pay attention to my personal life. My middle child is graduating from UC Davis, and my youngest daughter is being promoted to high school. My mother is due back from Cleveland and I have one of my ex-wives moving in to care for her (drive, cook, etc). This is a happy coincidence as my ex-wife had just become homeless. Now, she and her 7 years old son (from another liaison) will have secure digs. This also gives me some much needed leverage over my 13 year old as she realizes that if behavior is not exemplary and her grades do not maintain a 3.5, then it is going to be an easy deal to move her to her mother's (my mother's) for future raising thus allowing me some much sought after freedom. I have been raising children now for 27 years, and with only a few more on the horizon, I find myself looking forward to life unencumbered by children and their associates!

I had to turn down a new client as I will not work now until September. This next few months will be focused upon resubmitting my book to publishers and promoting the existing piece (getting it out on ebook links and such...). Two more weeks with Joe, then a nice few weeks off...ahhhhhhhhhh.