Put a little beauty out into the world
From Thanksgiving 2017 to Memorial Day 2018 I lost 26 pounds. Since the end of May I’ve gained back nearly ten. I can feel it where my clothes are rubbing me again, I can feel it in the rolls that …
{2e Tuesday} Too much and yet not enough
Intensity is something I am intimately familiar with, in so many different respects. In music, it’s something I struggle to get my students to do. It’s hard to explain but you know if it’s there or not. Music is all about …
The Rules Have Changed
I lit into my kid today. Doesn’t even really matter which one; later this afternoon his brother is getting Variation on a Theme, followed by Second Verse Same as the First parental duet for both young men, and probably an encore of This …
MAAR
Back in the glory days of blogging (let’s say the late aughts or so, before social media and monetization took over), I lived and died by my RSS reader. Oh, Google Reader, how I still miss thee. It would collect …
10Q very much
Do you 10Q? From the website: Answer one question per day in your own secret online 10Q space. Make your answers serious. Silly. Salacious. However you like. It’s your 10Q. When you’re finished, hit the magic button and your answers …
Adieu summer, I hardly knew ye
And like that…summer is over. I didn’t intend to take a long blogging hiatus, it just sorta happened. You don’t plan to fail, you just fail to plan. I presented at the SENG conference, attended a friend’s wedding, taught a few band …
{Book Review} The Gifted Kids Workbook
I’m just going to cut to the chase. Heather Boorman’s new book, The Gifted Kids Workbook, is absolutely brilliant, it’s exactly what I needed a decade ago, and if you’re parenting or teaching a gifted kid (roughly between the ages of …
The gifted community mourns
Dr. James T. Webb died this weekend. The gifted community is in shock, is in mourning, is absolutely heartbroken. I just saw him a week ago, at SENG, and to my untrained eye he was the very image of vibrant …
I’d like to reinstall my operating system
“Thank you for calling Inner Workings Tech Support, where we fix it or your money back! My name is Todd, how can I help you on this beautiful afternoon?” “Hi Todd. My name is Jen and my operating system is …
Still kicking
It’s been…it’s been a long spring, yo. Mid-February I started a longterm middle school band sub gig, covering for a friend going on maternity leave; it started significantly sooner than expected when she had her son eight weeks early. What …