I’ve been trying to keep up with the news about the WGA strike, and my best source of information has been Nikki Finke’s column, Deadline Hollywood Daily. I’ve been an avid reader since I don’t know when, but I’m especially grateful for her great connections and accurate reporting right now. Among the many columns she [...]

A strange thing. Lately I’ve been investing a fair bit of over-achieving energy in a presentation I was giving today on the geography, climate and natural history of the “Southern Cone” countries of South America – Chile, Argentina and Uruguay – in my Spanish class. I planned very carefully what I would say, and fretted [...]

This morning I drove west to the Berkshires for a recording session. For some reason, when I worked in the academic world, I always lived west of my university or college so I was always blindly driving or bicycling east into the rising sun and west into the sunset. I thought of that this morning [...]

Those of you who read my blog already know that I have a hard time with routine as I’ve always felt it boxed me in. I’ve changed my thinking and now see routine as liberating, because it can give me a framework for accomplishing everything I need to do and more. So, I’ve been taking [...]