Music

Fall From Grace

May 16, 2013

There’s a phenomenon I’ve observed in first-borns like myself, people who gain siblings around the age of 1 or 2 or 3.* We experience a fall from grace. For a time, we are at the center of the universe, as evidenced by the fact that our parents’ lives revolve around us. They delight in taking [...]

Mix Tape: Dedicated to the ones I love

April 7, 2013

Remember cassette tapes? Remember when someone you love made one for you, painstakingly gathering meaningful songs from the CDs, the radio, or — gasp — record albums? I’m going to begin sharing some songs I love, ones you may not be familiar with, ones that make me smile when they turn up on my iPod. [...]

Perfect Moment Monday: Love your interruptions

January 27, 2013

“Mommy, would you cuddle with me?” My 9 year-old son, Reed, still asks me that at bedtime. It’s at the part of the day when I just want to open up my computer and finish that post, respond to that email, look up that fact I was wondering about earlier. In other words, I’m ready [...]

Perfect Moment Monday: On the piano bench

February 26, 2012

Tessa has taught herself  Heart and Soul on the piano, and we’ll often play it as a duet (“often” as in a bazillion times a day). The other night she asked me to play her a different song, so I pulled out my sheet music from Edvard Grieg’s Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, which I labored [...]

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