Peter Link

I choose to write a series of songs from the text of prose – prose where I cannot change a single word because I am quoting an established author and her historic work – Science…

Here fate takes a far different turn than one might expect. As discussed in my previous blog post, a rant against the decline of craft in one of America’s most brilliant of the…

Stephen Sondheim, one of our great present day lyricists, likes to say that lyric writing is puzzle solving. The puzzle is how are ya’ gonna get all them words to fit together…

Short. Keep it short. No one has time anymore. So keep it short.

I’m not particularly big on the word “religion”. I find it to be oft times restrictive, non-inclusive and all too often divisive. Though I have studied the world’s religions all…

Everybody lies occasionally. We all do it. And so lies come with different monikers describing the weight of the occasion – names like: white lie, fib, exaggeration, etc. But…

The dictionary defines this in simple terms. “Someone who denies the existence of God”. It’s from the Latin: atheos which means ‘without God’ or ‘Godless’. I’ve always been…

I was performing at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel Ballroom in some unremembered benefit back in the days when I did such things, and after I had finished my act, the stage manager…