So the brain, without using language or thought, attends to everything in a non verbal way like regulating temperature, responding to injury, overseeing needs for sleep or food or sex. […]

There is a student in my lyric class from China. I think he has shadowed Don Kerr for many years. He has Don’s expressions and demeanor down pat though he […]

With so many students it is very difficult to continue my PhD but I push on. I sent some material to three readers to check my objectivity because I’m losing […]

There are baking tricks, driving tricks, tax tricks, surgery tricks, fishing tricks, covering the presidential debate tricks. No end to the tricks in life for those who see it. Life […]

Practicing a scale or a musical gesture is really no different than practicing yoga or carpentry or internally trying to change the way you react to something that’s otherwise regrettable. […]

Mary Jo lives a few houses over. She has done a lot of work in her life improving the world of refugees to Canada. She’s in her late 70s or […]

I watched a guy on Instagram play Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue by touching various triggers of the opening clarinet line. His skill touching each trigger was accurate and it correctly […]

I opted for an internet telephone some years ago. What was good was all the calls came as gmail attachments and to this day I have messages in the early […]

I transposed a couple more songs onto piano that originally were written on guitar. Glad I play more than one instrument. Maybe this is why I’m enjoying the effort learning […]

Taking care of my friend’s dog, a greyhound. 14 years old which apparently means in one’s 90s in human years. When we walk outside, (sung in Meghan Trainor’s voice)it is […]