The school requires me to list the learning outcomes for teaching. I hopefully choose words carefully, one can’t assume people learn anything just because you told them the car is […]

I sometimes wonder if shadows know they are shadows. If music knows it is single notes. Does what looks back at me in the mirror also know? Made a quiche, […]

I was among a group of musicians traveling by bus from Toronto to Winnipeg and then back to Toronto to play different folk festivals. There was some new technology being […]

I recall many of my dreams and often I am not in them. It is surprising after waking up and thinking about the characters or the stories that I also […]

The more I think about the harpist annoyed that the pianist uses hammers to play a harp the more I’m convinced my own orientation believing “I” is the way to […]

Getting my phone fixed, speaker is all distorted. Getting my car fixed, rear axle is bouncing in distressing ways. Getting my 3rd floor apartment fixed, the deceased tenant was working […]

In the LCBO on the overhead speaker system,  I heard Lotta Love by Neil Young. A contemporary artist covering it. Not the first time it has been covered, Nicolette Larson, […]

I remembered it all out of sequence. That in itself was fun to lie there longer wondering about. When I woke up I couldn’t recall if I ever had dreams […]

I had a job when I was very young being a projectionist at the University of Winnipeg. I rolled the 16 mm projectors into various classes and threaded the films […]

In the class many students talk about the unique victimization of their religion, their gender identity, their skin colour, their hair or their body size. I can think of examples […]