The popular TV shows, American Idol and Project Runway, have taught us the reality of “not winning” in useful ways. Useful in that we watch and process rejection and harsh criticism on television, an activity that, with any luck, can help us get through the pain of “not winning” when we ourselves don’t “win.”
We watch […]
Daniel just put a down payment on our next car, an Aptera. Here is the note he sent to our family:
After close to four years of being a single-car household, Roger and I have decided to reserve an Aptera in hopes it will be our second car in 2009. The plug-in hybrid model costs less […]
Composers, on hearing their new work taking shape, are like expectant fathers. There is a point where where they can only sit and listen: it is in the hands of the performers. Every mistake is amplified a hundred-fold (but you must NOT let on that you know it, because often times only the composer and […]
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