Bob Wiseman

There is no end to the improvisation, born into it, die into it. Cinnamon sticks in the coffee grinder, better than buying powder, stays fluffy for many days after. My […]

The cashier at Nations was impressed with my groceries and asked if I knew the name of the seaweed. She told me her word for it but I can’t pronounce […]

I was asked to write a letter of recommendation for a student. Awkward situation because I didn’t think they were very accomplished. I asked the advice of other people who […]

Working on a song, wrote verses and a chorus. Need a bridge and it occurs to me that what I seek in a bridge is another angle. And then you […]

There’s a big tree in High Park, someone in the know says it’s two hundred years old. When you touch its magnificent fissures you’re confronted with a different distance between […]

i bought a neumann 87 many years ago and it’s been a workhorse, a very transparent perfect mic for all occasions but then you hear peter gabriel sings through a […]

there are sounds parents make when kids are wee, to pressure them to choose one thing over another. pleading sounds or cooing sounds or warning sounds. using tonality, they try […]

After significant storms you see fallen trees the next day through the vast stretches of forest/ park but nothing like that happened in recent days. So, it was surprising to […]

As obvious as the difference between this: Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies. And this: The contin­uous and (often) collective […]

Ain’t Gonna Study War No More. it’s a riddle because of “study” which elicits an answer about humankind and circular motion, the need to fight/ argue in perpetuity. the only […]