Piano

It was Sidney Poitier’s birthday and I put on To Sir with Love. Such a cool sounding song but even cooler when I explored it pianistically. In the key of […]

Teaching at Ryerson was fun. Had my last class and a few stuck around in a shy nervous way. They wanted to personally say goodbye or ask if I’m returning. […]

What are the odds, I am running late, I go into the subway station, I select the car that will be the best for my transfer and after finding a […]

I don’t know if I’m on target or not for April but today I advanced the story again and that was satisfying. I like how writing this story/ novel is […]

The shadows in Plato’s cave were taken to be real by the prisoners who did not know the origin of what was casting them. Our lives are like that, appearing […]

The fire doors are almost done. The new person upstairs is almost moved in. The architect has almost started the drawings. The show almost has a network. But the arpeggios […]

I hear a message on the overhead speakers when I ride the subway of the Toronto Transit Commission to stay off the tracks or face a $5000 punishment. I do […]

I played the Jazz festival Colloquium in Guelph under the title improvising melodicism. The more I thought about what I got myself into, the more I realized I couldn’t explain […]

The new course is underway and I met with the teaching assistants to discuss what we are doing. I realized soon into the zoom they just want me to order […]

The nice thing about arguing with my brother Ronnie about God or no God is that we can call each other names and get blunt and mean without ending our […]