Travis has always liked beavers and identified with them. He thinks of Beaver as his animal guide. So for his…

A friend asked how I was doing, and I replied, “I’ve got a lot of balls in the air.” I…

I remembered that once upon a time, I had done a talk inspired by this Stephen Sondheim song title —…

American composer John Cage wrote a provocative piece in the mid-1980s. It’s called “Organ 2/As Slow As Possible.” Keyboardists are…

The number one song on Billboard’s Hot 100 pop music chart the day that I was born — almost 55…

I’m about ready to declare Goose a member of my spirit animal pantheon. Over the years, I’ve adopted Otter and…

A program caught my eye, from one of the TV screens hanging in a row in front of the cardio…

I’ve been going through photographs on my computer this week. My father-in-law died last Friday, and we’ve been grieving and…

Novelist Ann Brashares wrote, “There are two kinds of people in this world. The kind who divide the world into…

I was talking to a friend about making art. At different times in our lives, both of us have thought…

Last week, we talked about Hope coming from that untouched, virginal part of us.  Possibility born out of not knowing,…

There’s something especially magical about Eves, the night before. Before Christmas, before a New Year. The time before anything to…