It’s my dad’s birthday today. He died over twenty years ago. Today marks one hundred years ago his birth. He was the only one in the family who didn’t play […]

I was reading about using AI for therapy, about the results of a study of women suffering PTSD in two groups, one that used psychotherapists three times a week, the […]

Over these recent years teaching I meet a lot of students who do not know how to play an instrument well but believe themselves great artists. Is that the Dunning […]

There is a guy who started attending the open stage who plays well enough but I had not really tuned into his writing until last night when he played a […]

A group of geezers approached me to play with them. I’m a geezer too. Think I’ll do it, at least check out the rehearsal and see if they keep a […]

In the story about improvisation I keep improvising the story and thinking it is too bad there isn’t a universe where I am assessed instead for the improvisation of the […]

I liked how Kyp imitated Sam’s way of telling ridiculous jokes last summer when we had a people Sam Larkin tribute night. I just counted all their hooves and then […]

When I applied for the job, I thought, Why not? I need full-time work, wasn’t that the reason to start the PhD after the house-fire and fuck-you-get-lost-rejection from the insurance […]

One can listen to birds and imagine they are musicians doing a free improv. One can also forget about the imagining part.

There is an interview with the Bulgarian musician and mystic who recorded the Butterfly Studies where he describes our waking state as just an extension of the dream state. Seemed […]