March 1, 2021 The Power of Focused Practice + Sleep I was listening to an interview with a woman who does research on sleep who also happens to have a newborn baby. One of the things she described was how she would show the baby something to try out –

February 22, 2021​ How are you doing right now? When you start to answer that question, your answer depends on how you use one of your biggest assets: your attention. What you focus on creates everything you experience. This is no small issue for me. I work online every day,

​ Last week I sent you a letter about taking a look at what you have control over and what you don’t have control over (among other things). I got so many wonderful letters back were uplifting and positive, and I asked for permission to include a couple of them.

Dear Music Lover, I hope you are doing well in spite of the pandemic and the general state of the world. My goal with these letters is to give you something worth reading and ideas worth trying out. My response to the global lock down has been to drop out

I hope this message finds you safe and in contact with your friends, and I hope you have been finding time to play some music. I write these letters because I have a persistent feeling that we are here for a reason and that we have things to do that

2020-02-20 – Greetings from cold, grey Central Pennsylvania. The Link Between Meditating and Music Practice   One of my goals for the new year was to pick a very small list of things that I will do every day. It took most of January to settle on a list. It

One of the projects that I’m working on this year is to learn to play the chromatic harmonica in all 12 keys . I am doing this as my focus for learning music theory, specifically jazz music theory.   I came to this commitment by a long winding road with