Sometimes the parents of my daughter’s friends know my background and are excited I am who I am (did I just Popeye?) and suddenly I’m a bigger deal in her […]

A swarm of ideas breeding in those songs I started in Sweden. Like trying to assemble a jigsaw puzzle while the pieces are melting, somehow still sounds beautiful once you […]

The Swedish mixes keep floating along like little boats on a pond that forgot which way the wind blows. I sit there, paddling. Bass lines bump into echoes, harmonies bump […]

Almost finished my Framing Document. The strangest part is attributing importance to what I wrote. The project was important to me but whether or not others find meaning in it.. […]

Funny how I’ve spent these recent years qualifying for a PhD to get a full time teaching job, (a job I could have taught just as easily 7 years ago […]

At last, somebody from Kelowna called me back. It took long enough. These things are always strange, who’s actually holding the wheel. Sometimes you get the right person in the […]

Hey Chat GPT, does man have free will? 1. Determinism (no free will) Everything that happens—including your choices—was set in motion by causes before you were born: genes, upbringing, culture, […]

I can easily explain what leaves me cold about a musician like Elton John, why his songs don’t hold me musically or lyrically. And yet, there he is in Spinal […]

The telephone has several options, each however leads to an answering machine suggesting I leave a general message. I do, but also sense it probably not different than what physics […]