In Memory...

On June 12, my friend Leah Ryan died of Leukemia. I don't know how old she was, but she was younger than me. There is a link to her blog on the left side of my blog's homepage.

Leah was a playwright who lived in New York City. She wrote the book and lyrics to the shows Just Say Blow Me and Roxi Starr in 3D for Susan Mele. I wrote the music to the songs.

The songs we wrote included: "The Ballad of Billie Sue", "Empty Pan Blues", "Mrs. Somebody", "Broken Dreams" and my favorite "One Thing". "One Thing" will be performed at my cabaret on July 27.

It amazes and saddens me that someone so brilliant can suffer so much and die so young. We are fortunate to have all the writing she left behind.