Leaving People Better Than You Found Them
It's easy to teach when everything is going well, when families support each other, when children are perfectly behaved, when students are healthy. It's a lot tougher when parents are…
PA Shorts: Famous Amateur Pianists
Just after reading a rather nasty comment on amateur pianists (the location shall remain nameless), I heard a performance of The Archduke Trio on the radio. What do the two have in…
Amateur Exploration
Last Sunday, on the way back from our family reunion, I was listening to an episode of The Splendid Table wherein Lynne Rossetto Kasper interviewed Nigella Lawson. In her introduction,…