If the brain makes all it’s decisions based upon intelligence what then was it doing keeping her repeating destructive behavior over and over and over? What did it gain by […]

I damaged a relationship one time, I said something critical about the music of a friend who asked me what I thought of their new record. There was every reason […]

Mean Steve Piano was a strange guy, to me anyway. We just didn’t have much in common despite both being pianists and on the scene of Toronto’s Queen street once […]

A young boy repeated to his violin teacher a racist joke he heard in the schoolyard, which he didn’t understand. The teacher ridiculed the boy and not understanding why the […]

After dinner I was walking through the mall with my book, pt. 2 of Chava Rosenfarb’s trilogy about the Lodz ghetto when an man somewhere in his early eighties, who […]

One of my friends, when we were eleven, at the Eaton’s department store, sat in a wheelchair. He helped himself to it, there happened to be one there. I wheeled […]

Thoughts are not the stuff that makes change. Nails, wood, hammers are. If you could make your thoughts like nails, wood and hammers no problem. You cannot train your mind […]

A student I liked, dropped the course because of mental health. I tried to help, to be an ear, to offer extensions for their assignments but they’re depressed. I see […]

I didn’t know a lot about Bob Nasmith. After he died I read many more details, about Vietnam, about regular nudity and about Chopin. I just knew him as one […]

A kid learned the beginning of something on the piano and they enjoy it and play it a bunch but can’t stop showing everyone and anyone. Sort of wish I […]