Student reviews from the University came back. Each term less than 10% fill them out but always interesting. They are anonymous and run the spectrum from I hate your guts […]

A student doing a presentation on Lemonade by Beyoncé said near the end that she feels sorry for her because she’s one of the most famous people in the world, […]

A student in class doing a presentation on SIA’s 1000 Forms of Fear mentioned at one point that she had been compared to Aretha whoever that is. I asked you […]

Sometimes I think the teaching in the classroom might just be asking questions. In last week’s Green Day presentation, a student showed a clip ostensibly proving Billie Joe Armstrong is […]

A student lies to my face. I badly want to tell her how stupid is this lie. The system of academia is a chess game and she has so many […]

The best part of baking a sweet potato is when it sweats. You know it is done, little sweet droplets, aroma fills kitchen. The best part of my new song […]

Now that I have been teaching at colleges off and on for ten years it’s a fact that not everyone shows up on time and there higher ups have no […]

A student asked me what I thought of the 1980s. I didn’t know how to answer her. I said when you are in your twenties, and wherever one is in […]

The first performances started today. Twenty year old woman from the Punjab stayed after class to tell me after hearing the first four students perform, she realizes she has no […]

What to do about Buffy St. Marie. I assign certain films in my songwriting and music business classes and I love the film Rumble: The Indians That Rocked The World. […]