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I’d never truly heard of the Komodo dragon until one lunged at me through a late-night spiral of YouTube. Now I can’t stop watching. Their jaws clamp down on whole, […]

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You can’t supply wisdom to someone simply by showing them words. That’s the trick in the teaching business. Like Arnold, the psychiatrist, used to say at our staff meetings, “a […]

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In class, a student brought up the Lucy Connolly story from the UK. A story that struck many of us as surreal and troubling, centering around a brutal tragedy: seventeen-year-old […]

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It’s my dad’s birthday today. He died over twenty years ago. Today marks one hundred years ago his birth. He was the only one in the family who didn’t play […]

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I was reading about using AI for therapy, about the results of a study of women suffering PTSD in two groups, one that used psychotherapists three times a week, the […]

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Over these recent years teaching I meet a lot of students who do not know how to play an instrument well but believe themselves great artists. Is that the Dunning […]

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There is a guy who started attending the open stage who plays well enough but I had not really tuned into his writing until last night when he played a […]

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A group of geezers approached me to play with them. I’m a geezer too. Think I’ll do it, at least check out the rehearsal and see if they keep a […]

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In the story about improvisation I keep improvising the story and thinking it is too bad there isn’t a universe where I am assessed instead for the improvisation of the […]

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I liked how Kyp imitated Sam’s way of telling ridiculous jokes last summer when we had a people Sam Larkin tribute night. I just counted all their hooves and then […]