been trying to practise away from the piano or to put it another way when i’m away from the piano i try to run my thoughts through some of the […]

It’s been four months but I have almost completed my taxes. The only way I can make sense out of why I avoid it is the boring activity. Many receipts […]

My brother Ronnie bought me some used records for my eleventh birthday. These were all from the Stereo Swap Shop on Osbourne street. That store destroyed my little brain, a […]

There was a squirrel in High Park eating a peanut. I watched it’s little claws hold the peanut in prayer position like a vice and it’s tiny mouth surgically removed […]

It often seems to me a certain kind of energy interferes with direct communication as if a magnet is pulling things to move in a specific direction. Even following a […]

At a certain point when I was a boy they took me to the house of a piano teacher, an older woman who had two grand pianos side by side. […]

One time there was a student in my class who wrote about madness as a natural part of humankind’s existence. She believed there were omnipresent examples of this in society […]

I’m listening to Ellen McIlwain Can’t believe I missed this train She’s a monster that’s for sure Love the way an outsider cures I’m listening to Ellen McIlwaine Some say […]

ralph: I make the same mistakes and then I think about the mistakes all the time and how unlikely I am to get it together. I don’t know if I’m […]

Working on stride patterns, could never swiftly play 10ths like those crazy virtuosos who cascade all around. Not in my biological cards. Oscar Peterson, Stanley Cowell, Art Tatum, Keith Jarrett… […]