This was nearly about “Self-Employment Without Needing Unemployment”, because I have been troubled by how many musicians and music teachers I have seen say that they will need to cut back on food or may be homeless because of the Covid-19 shutdowns. They were also unusually excited at the thought …
When my students ask where to buy strings, music stands, or other music-related things online, I usually direct them to Southwest Strings in general and Johnson String Instrument if I am directing them to purchase an adjustable cello or harp chair. JSI has a bigger selection, but Southwest Strings has …
I had a perfectly good name. I could write it, with some letters backwards and almost legibly, when I was 3. I wrote it a lot, perhaps because it was one of the longest words I could write back then. I believe I tried to write my name at 2, …
In the summer of 2015, I bought a Coach Nolita 19 in pebbled red leather with silver hardware off Coach.com. This happened after some contemplation on whether I am the sort of person who wears daring colours and eventually deciding that red is a daring color which I enjoy. By …
For me, weekends equal teaching. This means that weekends often involve me telling other people something they have not heard before. Sometimes, I hear something I have not heard before. A student came in today and told me about the microscopic hooks on her bow hair which pluck at the …
