My chameleon life
I am a flutist. I want to practice and improve. Watch YouTube videos of masterclasses and recitals, attend concerts every week. Focus on my pedagogy, so my students can benefit from what I learn and share. Write a method book …
My inner child is a 12 year old boy and my 12 year old son won’t play with me
A had a class at the planetarium today. It’s no Air and Space Museum, but it’s a good little museum on a beautiful piece of land out in the lake. The biggest PITA downside is that it took us over …
I’d give up but then I wouldn’t be writing this
Unless I get a time machine, a full-time home-educator, a live-in maid, or another dozen hours a day, this is very likely my last NaBloPoMo. I can’t take the ratio of crap to non-crap here this month. This? Falls square …
Mindfulness through music
Want to live in the moment? Play an instrument. But not just play an instrument, play in a high-quality ensemble on that instrument. And then play wicked hard music in that high-quality ensemble on that instrument. You cannot help but …
Taking time
Sometimes you just need to some take time and hide, despite what is sitting in front of you demanding to be done. You need to do it because the alternative is hearing your blood pumping through your ears, or screaming …
Seth Godin, please stop using the word gifted
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Words matter. Words may be a clunky method of exchanging thoughts and ideas with others, but it’s the best and most efficient manner of …
Holidays in 3…2…
Just in case you haven’t checked out a calendar anytime recently, it’s mid-November. Thanksgiving and Hanukkah are two weeks from today. Christmas is forty days off. Now you know. And are probably freaking out. Just don’t kill the messenger, m’kay?
The pain of NaBloPoMo
Towards the end of October I started looking ahead to the hell that is NaBloPoMo. And though I’ve participated in this particular flavor of insanity several times before, I naively thought, “Oh, I have plenty of time and plenty of …
StarTalk, knocking boots, and parenting
We are huge StarTalk fans in this house. Huge. Neil deGrasse Tyson has managed to make science fun and entertaining, accessible to the masses, and juuust the right length for a day of errands with the boys. We rarely listen …
Pinterest and the myth of holiday perfection
I lurves me some Pinterest. I’ve been on the site a long time; I can’t remember how long, but it was back when they were only allowing a few people in at a time and needed an invite. I scored …