Essays on music: the stories it tells, and what it leaves us to live by.


“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.” ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“To become indignant at (people’s) conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

My niece, Kayla is turning 3 next month. Over these almost 3 years, I’ve had the privilege of having her at my home very often. Looking back, I’m surprised myself, at how I changed from being a remote 17 year-old uncle who minded his own business to having her as a very important person in…