In the class discussions posted online a few students address the articles we recently reviewed which showed disproportionate amounts of male artists featured in music festivals. Most of the students […]

Meeting w my supervisor went well. They seem really into my PhD. Is this a set up? Can I actually make sense out of improvisation in a written context, in […]

I love everything Linda Ronstadt does/ did, but when I was young I didn’t tune into the creativity of her work. When Elvis Costello was mean to her I saw […]

We go to a restaurant and the server brings us a loaf of bread before the meal and my daughter tries to cut it and one side sticks up in […]

Over the speakers at the airport I heard them playing Clampdown by The Clash and I thought how amazing that whatever starts out rebellious or shocking is, in the fullness […]

Muhammed, who sells me phones [or fixes them], has a health issue and it makes his left hand shake. Often when he tries to configure something he needs me to […]

Chorus, verse, bridge. They work. Heading to Winnipeg for the funeral. In and out. My mother is concerned I don’t know how to dress for the cold. She tries to […]

I enjoy Glenn Greenwald’s channel very much, even when his views do not make sense to me, and sometimes they do not but mostly I find his reporting stronger for […]

There is a woman on Instagram that I follow who cooks things that interest me in ways that interest me and sometimes I look at the comments about this or […]