On Sunday, Daniel invited his uncle and aunt, Tita [aunt] Eden and her husband Nelson, their sons and daughters and their children to our house for the afternoon. We had a dozen kids under the age of 13 here and I have to say they were the best behaved children I’ve seen in years When […]
[I take the bus these days. Sick of paying so much at the tank, and you see a lot of stuff you don’t otherwise see. It seems a good source of blog stories, so here.]
On the way home today, the back of the bus was dominated by 5 boys, probably 14 to 15 years old. […]
Tonight I went to a concert, and after the second piece on the 2nd half, I was FULL. I had a hard time listening to more. The music went in my brain, but I didn’t aggressively take it in as I did when I was fresh. It wasn’t that the music was bad, it was […]
Yesterday was a stressful day. Why? Because in my mind, there were so many things that needed to get done but simply not enough hours in the day, nor enough energy to get them all done even if there were.
I watched my body as it tensed up, and all other physical manifestations of stress […]
My annual trip up to Lake Arrowhead was a pleasant one. I left early on Saturday morning and just flew up the mountain. It is always fun to spend time with my committee buddies deliberating over proposals for curricular improvement.
Lake Arrowhead seems bone dry, ie, a water shortage. The front page confirmed my suspicion […]
I am starting to catch up with my life. My 3000 email deficit from 2 weeks ago is down to one unread email as of this morning. I couldn’t sleep the other night, worrying that I still had 678 emails to answer, so I stayed up late last night and got through them all.
Lake Tahoe […]
When friends tell me they are starting a blog they invariably ask me for advice (sometimes not). One piece of advice I have always given is to try to blog every day. That being said, don’t blog if it feels forced or you are emotionally in a thorny place.
Because of that habit, I am confident […]
Taking my cue from my Deans in an effort to avoid burn-out, I planned a 4-day weekend months ago to Lake Tahoe with Daniel. I figured this would be a good weekend to take off. Well, that didn’t really turn out perfectly — you always leave stuff undone, but sometimes I have to just get […]
In grade school, I took a class from Miss Ding Dong (can’t remember her name) in typing. She didn’t like me very much. My hand-eye coordination was not the greatest in typing (although I was always good at sports) and as a result, I got a “D” for a grade that term. I’m a blazing […]
In the mid-1980s my publisher told me about the gay choral movement. Several of his composers had written for the chorus in New York and he encouraged me to make connections to try to join that world. It didn’t happen until 1991 when the late Leonard Raver (organist to the NY Phil) recommended to Jon […]
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