Bruce, a composer-pianist-broker friend who is significant to my growing musical confidence and knowledge, recently asked why my music...

I was reading two poems about “Inner Voices,” in a manuscript of Ann’s second volume of poetry which is scheduled for publication later...

Words fascinate me. When I was in early grammar school and it was about time to leave for school in the morning, my mom used to find me...

After the just-past 21 months of piano lessons, I have arrived at the conclusion that there are no (or very, very few) "best practices"...

I'm an exuberant lover of health and the arts. As a “baby boomer” child growing up in Texas and at the urging of my mother, I pursued...

I'm not sure that "glitter effects" are passe. Glitter is ineluctable to me! Tom Stoddard, playwright and now 85, thinks differently, as...

I observe that when I enter into music, either as a player of my piano or a listener to another person or group, I am participating in an...

In society, having fun is considered by many to be less valuable than working hard or being practical or "serious." The label of...