A day or two ago I had an interesting memory come up. I remembered that from time to time while shopping with my family in department stores as a child, we saw organs for sale, and the store would have someone there playing one. I’m not sure if it was a store clerk who also …
A couple of days ago I bought a bunch of bananas, and then yesterday I was given some more, which are already quite ripe, so I need to do something with them pretty quickly. I enjoy trying out new recipes, and I have been wanting to start posting recipes here on my blog, so I …
Earlier this evening at my niece’s website I read a blog post about today being the birth date of Galileo Galilei, 446 years ago. That idea got me wanting to see what else happened on February 15 throughout history. Here are a few interesting events that I found at the Today in History Page of …
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One morning in December I awoke to hear the news on my clock-radio that a Canadian teen-ager had just received a Steinway piano as a Christmas gift. According to the online article, “Steinway gift inspires teen pianist,” the gift came from piano dealer and music instructor, Irene Besse. I was intrigued and decided to find …
I learned to play the piano when I was a child, and I played it quite a bit up into my early twenties. After that I moved to a different city and didn’t have regular access to a piano. Lately when I play the piano at friends’ places I’ve noticed that my site-reading is a …
Last night I decided to try some “freewriting.” Since it was night and I was tired, my thoughts turned to the subject of sleep. Here’s what I wrote: Sleep Where do I go when I sleep? My body lies down; my eyes close. I stop talking. I stop thinking. Everything stops. Eight hours later I …