Happy Thanksgiving!
I have a lot to be grateful for during this Thanksgiving holiday, and right there at the top of the list are you, my amazing students. I love spending time […]
I have a lot to be grateful for during this Thanksgiving holiday, and right there at the top of the list are you, my amazing students. I love spending time […]
In late January, I sent a Zillow house listing to my wife. That simple moment put us on a whirlwind course fraught with anxieties of all sorts. Not only would […]
At the start of this year, we faced a great deal of uncertainty. Vaccines weren’t yet available to the general public; schools were virtual; and most people had to learn […]
I stood up, put my guitar on its stand and reached out my hand to thank Susan for the lesson. She reached into her purse, pulled out $30 in cash […]
This has been a crazy year, but you, my students, have helped me make the best of it. Thank you for trying something new and giving me the opportunity to […]
(Here’s a link to part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4.) It was Friday morning, two days after Halloween and I was staring at my Grandpop’s face. I was sitting […]
(Here’s a link to part 1, part 2 and part 3.) Grandpop falls My Grandpop had been battling multiple health issues for a few years, but by early October 2018, […]
(Here’s a link to part 1 and part 2.) Begone paint! In the summer of 1999, a short six months after I bought this guitar, I defiled it. I stripped […]
(Here’s a link to part 1.) The guitar that started it all In December 1998, I walked out of Mars Music Center in Parkville, Maryland with an empty wallet in […]
I scratched my head as my eyes darted from the wiring schematic to the tangle of wires on the underside of my old guitar’s pickguard. They darted back. I rubbed […]