Enough with the doom and gloom for a minute; let’s have some fun. A couple years ago my town seemed to have cornered the market on the blackbird population. They were thick as thieves! They were everywhere! And they were funny little muses for me. I wrote two blackbird songs, one because there was a […]
I’ve been watching a lot of space tv on PBS lately. I’m a huge fan of science documentaries and such, but especially space: cosmology, planetary science, origins of life, exploration, all the things. I love it. It’s my comfort food, I think because of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, which was like religion in my house. We
Sometimes our students are our best teachers. A few years ago, I had a guitar and violin student (I love a multi-talented kid) that was one of my favorite people ever. One afternoon, they said to me in a voice filled with wonder, “Music is the wind, and we are the willow tree.” And I
