I love hiking when spring is *just* happening in New Hampshire! Bolstered by the clear results of a “Hike or Nap” poll on Mastodon, Peanut and I took a lovely walk today on some of the trails in the Harris Center for Conservation Education‘s massive…tracts o’ land. (Yes that WAS a Monty Python joke, thank … Read more
Although I didn’t think so when I was just a little unopened bud, I’ve come to realize that I’m a late bloomer. Fortunately, the buds are nice too.
I’m thrilled to be participating in the Extreme Imagination conference, which is put on by the Aphantasia Network and is dedicated to the study of aphantasia and hyperphantasia. I’m really excited to learn more about what’s going on w/ this burgeoning field of research, and to connect w/ other artists who are variously on this … Read more
I am not a patient human. I woke up having a dream about a guitar part that required a hollow body. This was inevitable from that moment on. Also, my first ever guitar was blue. (It was also not nearly as wonderful as this big beautiful blue bastard.)
I’m thrilled to have been asked to join the board of the formidable, cool, and formidably cool local arts service organization, Arts Alive!! (This sentence has two exclamation points because one belongs to the organization’s name, and one belongs to my enthusiasm for the organization.) I’ll be serving at least through 2022. Arts Alive! is … Read more
It’s been quite a year, quite a fall. Here are some of my favorite live screen captures of the last few months.
cach·in·nate | \ ˈka-kə-ˌnāt \ cachinnated; cachinnating intransitive verb : to laugh loudly or immoderately
New-to-me Yamaha U3 is in FULL EFFECT! Funny, it looks like it’s been there all its life. I’m absolutely thrilled with it so far. My main complaint: it sounds like it should play like a grand, and of course, it doesn’t. That said, I’m SO enjoying the feel of it, esp. for songwriting and classical … Read more
When you spend all day learning and perfecting a JavaScript charts library, only to realize at 3:00pm that a table is actually the best solution.
