There is a zone my 5 yr old gets into where everything is a why question. Why is that blue? Why are there police? Why is Trump president? Why is […]

New semester. Students discuss which songs they will do over next months. I ask if this time they will consider writing original songs, luke-warm response. Still more eager to play […]

Sometimes when I meet people into astrology, who ask me when I was born, I like making up different sun sign answers. I like the knowing recognition on their face. They […]

1/ the Grateful Dead weren’t really a band. 2/ Morrissey knows what he’s talking about. 3/ You can get better music at Walmart. 4/ John Coltrane influenced Pharaoh Sanders. 5/ […]

While recently in Winnipeg my mother said she is grateful for art in her life and the useful role it plays in her aging, soon she will be 90. I […]

My friend musician Sam Larkin developed hearing problems and in the last years, I asked him about it one time. I liked his explanation, “hearing aids work terrible with music. and […]

kid: Why is it when I try to play something that is tough, after a long time practicing over and over, I can do it?   teacher: I don’t know, […]

Here Winnipeg, frozen river. Once, under Donald street bridge, took a chance walked slowly across it, there was a path after all of others who went before me. Same feeling […]

5 and 6 year old kids, already on the bus,  return my look with stone expressions, in the mornings when I walk my daughter to the bus. I make a […]

Saw Coco the other day, that’s two children’s movies in one week. Used to envy those Hollywood musicians, and who wouldn’t want a shot like that, not to mention the […]