Over the past five years I have let go of things I’ve loved. The first thing was television. I grew up on American TV from 1948, but I...

In 1991 I went to a writing workshop in a castle on the Irish Sea. While the waves banged and the sheep bleated and baa baa-ed, the...

Let me tell you about my music theory class and piano lessons. It all started because I wanted to set an Emily Dickinson poem to music,...