old classmate
An old friend suffers with depression is in an institution now. Hopefully, whatever the treatment is contains some music since she is a pianist and a violinist. Her partner doesn’t […]
Bob Wiseman
teaching kids
“lia and amelia went to the shop and the only thing they bot was a little pot” Lately worked a part time job in a school teaching songwriting to […]
I’m in Heaven When You Smile
I had a Van Morrison record, Saint Dominic’s Preview, and for years I loved the first song which referenced Jackie Wilson, a singer I didn’t know. Recently went on a […]
urges
The headline said, “Huawei used AI technology to complete Schubert’s unfinished symphony.” It sounded impressive in the way headlines often do, crisp and proud of themselves. What it didn’t say […]
theory
Sometimes she stumbled upon a piano in the wild, church basement, dance hall, back of a bar, anywhere with ghosts, and there it was, one note broken, that dumb mute […]
the burdock piano festival
An artist touring from New York asked me if I would open their show at the Burdock in Toronto 4 yrs ago. Never played there before and after I was […]
freeze from freezing
Couple nights ago, 30 minutes after midnight, thought came to mind: check the pipes in the basement. Sure enough no water flowing from the taps. I opened them up, set […]
mitch
The mind has a mind of its own. That’s the first problem. It’s a committee meeting where everyone thinks they’re the chair. Some parts of you believe they’re refereeing traffic, […]
bruce on the street
How wrong I am most of the time about the minds of others. It’s like planning something for an audience, it might work as you imagine it but it might […]
the good teacher
Sometimes, when I cook rice, I heat the pot first before adding any water. I like that small moment when the first drops hit the metal and vanish into […]