Planning an assignment in advance, for next year’s songwriting class. An assignment that excites me, think it would resonate with the students, but then I took a break, ran some […]

the emotional trombone student told their teacher they were quitting band because they didn’t believe in following this path any longer. they went back and forth constantly about whether to […]

A biologist who played the fiddle had an epiphany one day while noticing how cells travel the same pathways each day from the heart to the toes and back again. […]

there is an idea in chemistry called le chatelier’s principle, which states that when an organism is under threat, it does whatever it can to remain at equalibrium. if it […]

Book comes out next month. Did first interview for it last night. Two hosts and at certain point, Karim changed his tone and said ok I have a question now […]

a red winged blackbird dive bombed me last week. was amazing and surprised i wasn’t more shocked or frightened when it singled me out, trying to shoo me on my […]

X. What do you like to write about?Y. I sing about politics, injustice, the looming industrial environmental apocalypse. X. No baby I love you songs?Y. Got some of that too. Whatever’s […]

A student last year submitted an opera in her final project, about the fact that everyone suffers from a perspective that they are flawed and seeking to correct the flaw. […]

A music student had an epiphany about what music is and what improvisation is. It freaked them out made them feel stoned when they weren’t taking any drugs, except music. […]

More than once during the tour Clyde asked Ginger about the hostility rule because it bugged him. When they arrived in Amsterdam she said you might want to look into […]