Amit Peled ,* cellist pictured on Sunday just past performed "Koi Nedrei Op. 47"  (aka "All Vows") by German composer Max Bruch. The...

"Everyone has a belief system ("B.S."); the trick is to learn not to take anyone's B.S. too seriously, especially your own." - Robert...

In this second week of the New Year, yet another message from the universe has come to my attention: a call to contemplate "loneliness."...

Matisse painting. Lessons sometimes come in waves; one serendipity leads to another and we no longer can avoid recognizing what is right...

New Year's Resolutions represent the ultimate folly as far as human beings and my personal experience go. I've learned not to bother;...

Above is Rocket, my cat Tipsy's boyfriend, pausing under mentor Joe's gorgeous "Sir B" (seven foot special Beethoven edition Bosendorfer...

Somehow this picture reminds me of "essential truths." My very first class and first day of law school in 1970, was contracts. Women then...

What could be better than music -- and a magician -- and a belly dancer -- to celebrate my Armistice's Day 80tieth birthday party --...

Calligraphy master Alan Blackman taught a Chinese brush technique class I took at the oLd basement de young Museum Art School some...

I don't always get it right. Not the first time, and not 100%. Sometime later I usually do. It's like when I write; I have to circle the...

Intended or unintended periods of major change that are inevitable throughout our very-human lives can result in beneficial -- or...

The Unclear Future? (See fall 2024 see my subsequent blog on the invasion of AI into the creative process, like it or not! See this...

When I'm playing my favored new style of pieces these days, i.e., simple , lyrical, and slow, I sometimes just stop dead upon hearing a...

If famed cellist Pablo Casals could do it – so can I! While Vivian Mackie was studying cello with Pablo Casals in Spain in the early...

Reading David Dowling’s pithy compendium of C. S. Lewis’ comments on writers and writing, (On Writing and Writers: A miscellany of advice...

Am I past my "sell by" date? Let's just start out with a never-ending stereotype of what aging means in America today, by citing this...

I was recently talking with a piano teacher who hails from Kentucky, when she corrected something I had said. I mentioned "practicing"...

I thought I would share my first-ever fictional short story involving music and performance. Although based loosely on some of my...

Such simple and profound words describing music and its meaning in his life, were said on the CBS morning news today (6.8.23) by cellist...

INTRODUCTION: I know the above saying but often don't heed it, since I'm a woman who loves words! But today in homage to the theme, I...