The new course is underway and I met with the teaching assistants to discuss what we are doing. I realized soon into the zoom they just want me to order […]

A person heard me describing what I’m doing and they were amazed. almost 200 students this semester, a lot of marking to be on top of between working at two […]

Made farinata. Favourite food when I toured Italy and unfortunately all these years I incorrectly held the view it was complicated to make but couldn’t be simpler. Made it twice […]

Tony Dewald’s obituary surprised me and was disappointing because the descriptions said nothing about being a monster. Anyone who was there knows that was no man but a monster. Yes, […]

Two of the six fire doors have been installed. This is very good and bodes well for the inspection I was issued to have six installed by Christmas or else […]

I interviewed Jen Claveau for my upcoming class because she seems on fire about understanding marketing for musicians. In the long run it is a job, a full time job, […]

There was a lyric in one of Sam Larkin’s last songs that referenced an older man adjusting to aging and the memories he no longer holds reliably. At one point […]

“don’t it always seem to go, you don’t know what you’ve got ’till it’s gone” In Brazil they are censoring X. I bet other democracies are watching because it sure […]

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. […]

“I want you to go in that bag and find my wallet”“which one is it?”“it’s the one that says bad motherfucker”Someone asked me a fave piece of dialogue in a […]