COMING THIS WEEK: THE FOURTH NJA CLUB NOVEL

Coming Next Week:The fourth novel in the NJA Club Series. The Brooklyn Mafia comes to Bangkok, and it’s up to Glenn Murray Cohen and the NJA Club regulars to fend them off. Check out the first three books of the series here:https://lnkd.in/gQyjS6TA? Click here to subscribe to Stephen Shaiken’s newsletter and be informed of new […]

RIP WAYNE SHORTER, THE NJA CLUB SERIES WILL MISS YOU

Photo courtesy of Britannica The death of saxophone great Wayne Shorter saddens jazz fans the world over, but it hits especially hard at the NJA Club. Wayne Shorter is far and away Glenn Murray Cohen’s favorite musician, and we all know how seriously Glenn takes his music. Glenn first introduces us to Wayne Shorter in […]

NOTED AUTHOR IS ALSO A ROCKER!

Photo by Josie Shaiken Photo by Josie Shaiken That’s me on the right, playing guitar. After several years of playing guitar in my living room and bedrooms, I finally summoned up the courage to jam with other musicians when I received an invite from The Catastrophically Bad Amateur Musicians of Tampa Bay. Actually, they are […]

WE ALL CARRY A HIDDEN YOGI

It was this time of year in 2005, right before the holiday break, when I did something I didn’t think was even on my radar screen: I took a yoga class. This was not the very first time I’d done so; back in the early seventies, I took a few yoga classes in California, but […]

ROCK & ROLL, NYC & THE SIXTIES: ALL FOR $1.99 THROUGH 12/16

      Click here to visit the Amazon Kindle page for Queensborough Rock (After December 16, the novel will sell for its list price of $6.99 for an e-book.) Take a trip back in time to NYC in 1971. The Sixties haven’t ended and rock ‘n’ roll reigns. Jack Bernstein wants to manage top […]

WISE WORDS FROM JACK KORNFIELD ABOUT COMPASSION

When I lived in Marin county, CA, I was a regular at Jack Kornfield’s Monday night meditation sessions at Spirit Rock. Hundreds of us  would sit for about an hour in silent mindful meditation in a big hall set amidst the beautiful rolling hills of West Marin. The meditation was  followed by one of Jack’s […]