Ha!

Mark Hayes wrote a most perfect arrangement of this American classic.

Holy Week 2021

This time last year I thought we’d have a few weeks of lock-down. Little did I know how important my discipline of The Daily Office would be to me, and how I would love that little home altar I set up for Holy Week last year. This year’s altar looks slightly different:

Designing history

Book #6 of the year: “Created for design enthusiasts, political aficionados, and students of Americana, Designing History documents Michael Smith’s extraordinary collaboration with President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. Not since Jacqueline Kennedy’s iconic work on the White House has a designer of Michael Smith’s stature been commissioned to bring a new design spirit to

Five years…

Five years ago. After leading the choir in Easter services at Christ Church Cathedral.

Baking soda

In my continued quest to use fewer chemicals at home, I decided to try baking soda and vinegar in my kitchen sink on Friday. The Comet stayed under the counter. Into the wet sink went a sifting of baking soda. I scrubbed hard. And then I splashed white vinegar in the sink. Everything bubbled and

Check in

More than one year now into the pandemic and isolation, I have spent some time this week taking stock and checking in with myself. Perhaps that’s why I’m so weary this week, and why tears have flowed easily as well. The 23rd anniversary of my mother’s death hit me harder than it has in years.

Squirrels

And audio blog entry today. Damn varmints.

#TBT: One year ago

One year ago this week, I wrote this postscript in a long email to students/faculty/staff in the Webster University Department of Music: What a year it’s been!

#TBT: three years ago

Three years ago today I was in transit from Moscow to Vienna. And in Vienna I treated bunches of my Webster students and my wonderful colleague Martha Hart to dinner. Here’s more from Moscow:

Food

More from the kitchen . . . .