Welcome & A Tiny Rant
I think Anne Lamott is my soul sister. My sister of another mother. Of course, she doesn’t know this. Her writing is earthy, funny, and cuts right to the chase.…
What I Did On My Summer Vacation
Wow! This is finals week. How exactly did that happen? We have a Mockingbird nest in our tree and have been amused as the parents have patiently enticed their little…
A Personal Lesson In Promise
The following is a portion of a speech I gave last Saturday at the local kick off for the National Veterans Creative Arts Competition. I was asked to speak, to…
Artist Portrait: Mark Isaacs
Pianist and composer, Mark Isaacs is spirited, animated, and vibrant with a penchant for channeling his inner techie. He is also wonderfully open and forthright about the realities of his…
Pa Shorts: A Lesson in Perfection
I went to San Diego last weekend to visit family. A friend of my daughter's, who also happens to be a world class photographer, saw that I was wearing a…
PA Shorts: As Time Goes By
Last Thursday, film critic Roger Ebert lost his long battle with cancer. I was listening to a Fresh Air interview by Terry Gross and was struck by the following: I…
Piano Fail
I was thumbing through a magazine while waiting for an appointment and came across some wisdom on reversing painful assumptions from Martha Beck. She had asked her client, who was…
Looking in the Mirror
Last week, I was given the gift of seeing myself and my teaching from without on two different occasions. Firstly, Matthew Odell was at the college to do a workshop…