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Opened for Ronnie Hawkins with Blue Rodeo in the 80s at City Hall on New Year’s Eve. Heard him eulogized on CBC the other day after he died. I remember […]

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I played autumn leaves at the tranzac open the other night, not very well but that’s what you do. You play it in front of people and maybe you stink […]

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Tammy Truebuckle once found herself headlining a show before thousands of people, all eager to hear her hits, “Frustrate Me (Again)”, “Mind If I Brag?” and “Wish You Were My […]

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I interviewed Anne Bourne for the next issue of the improvisation journal out of Guelph Improv Notes and she had a lot of great stories. My favourite was her account […]

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Trying to sort out how to make ends meet financially while doing the PhD. I was so mistaken when I applied, believing if you are accepted you are supplied with […]

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I am supposed to give a presentation at an academic conference on utopia. I was curious to participate when I read the the thrust of the other presentations and realized […]

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Have to transplant the sansevierias. They do well in shade and give off oxygen at night but won’t grow more unless repotted. Slowly realizing separating doesn’t make more room like […]

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A student told their teacher they often start the day with disappointment about their playing and sometimes question why they focus on what they got wrong instead of feeling proud […]

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One of the new pieces I’m working on stems from taking a gesture I played many times and inverting it plus putting that inversion in a different key than the […]

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I’m working on Autumn Leaves. Why working on this PhD when I could instead right now hit the Holiday Inn lounges. I hope they have real pianos. The first time […]