On Valentine’s Day, I fell off my icy porch onto icy pavement four steps below.

Pain, immobility, ambulance to Ellis ER. X-rays: nothing fractured or dislocated.

Injury diagnosed Monday at OrthoNY: quad tendon break. Surgery Thursday PM., home by dinner.

Long, long recovery ahead – like my Nippertown colleague Rudy Lu whose knee fractures predated my knee tendon injury by some weeks.

No live shows for a while; and not much energy for desk work, either.

Will update when I have news to share. Meantime, I’ll miss music, and you.