Still DREAMing
I’ve been meaning to write this post for some time, but yesterday’s announcement from the President gave me as good a reason to post it now as any. I wrote my doctoral thesis on musical settings of...
View ArticleJuly 4, Higgs Boson, Andy Griffith, and the Idealized American Past
Today we celebrate our nation’s birth (really, it’s the anniversary of the writing down of the philosophical basis for our independence), and we get to spend the day thinking about all the great things...
View ArticleNew Job, (Basically) Same Career
This morning, on my way to singing a lunchtime concert, I was offered a job as a middle school chorus director. I’m going to take the job. Throughout the past ten years or so, I’ve alternated between...
View ArticleAshamed to be an Eagle Scout
There’s a famous story, perhaps apocryphal, of Muhammed Ali throwing the gold medal he won in the 1960 Olympics into the Ohio River when he was denied service at an all-white restaurant and fighting...
View ArticleA Brief Story About Mercy
“But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” -Matthew 9:13 “For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God...
View ArticleThe Beautiful and Terrible Human Being
Yesterday was a pretty interesting day. I had the opportunity to cantor Mass twice at my church, and, since I hadn’t been to morning services there since returning home from Europe, I got to see a lot...
View ArticleReport from Middle School, Week 1: A Beautiful Kaleidoscope
So, this week was the first in my attempt to incorporate two aspects of my life into one schedule in a more stable way. I started my job teaching middle school chorus, and also gave a few singing...
View ArticleA Lonely Feeling
For quite some time (maybe forever?), I’ve tried to deal with what I’m meant to be doing with my life, and how I can best use my talents for the greater good. In the past three years, I’ve waited...
View ArticleAfter this Tuesday…
The truth of the matter is that, after months and months of primaries, and conventions, and debates, and countless hours of reading articles and blogs and watching lots of television coverage, I’m not...
View ArticleStories from Middle School: Begin Semester Two
I know this is a few weeks late, since I started the second semester four weeks ago, but I figured I haven’t posted on this blog in a really long time, and now was as good a time as any. For those...
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