The student who sits at the front but never speaks had an answer when I asked what she thought of the last student’s writing. It was a song about being […]

Often students communicate in email. Sometimes they present me with situations I cannot easily fix. Adding to the frustration is waiting for a reply to verify they have read the […]

After I read this in a student’s journal, “I wake up hating myself or is it hating that I am not the imagined self? Hating that I should be this […]

A student in class finally did his first performance. He is a nice fellow, comes to every class, sits at the back, quiet. I do not sense much of a […]

I read about the play Zero Hour by Jim Brochu and after finding nothing in libraries or book stores here, ordered it from the states. A one man play. What […]

I just watched a video about AI Granny. A chat gpt that wastes the time of scammers. So beautiful perfectly inverting the problem, like when they invent player pianos that […]

A lot of my students are in their early twenties. I bet in forty years, as they notice the deaths of various artists who will then be in their 70s […]

My daughter is more identified with the violin than previously. This is the forth time, starting when five years old. I go and rent it from the music store, she […]

Watching a lot of footage of Justin Trudeau being heckled. Often in public settings. One notices the determination not to acknowledge the loud hostile audiences and then you remember his […]

A woman practiced playing arpeggios in the 2cnd inversion almost always landed incorrectly on the uppermost notes. What is the proper response to this?a) keep doing it over and over […]