Yesterday, I went to the Hollywood Bowl again. It took over sixteen months between my last concert before the pandemic lockdowns, and it took just four days after that for my next […]
My Hollywood Bowl experience
Over the fever and past the lost appetite
About an hour past midnight, the stomach cramps were going away, and I was finally sleepy enough after reading for a couple of hours. The thermostat was set at 78º because that’s […]
A little under the weather
As occasionally happens with these posts, I’ve fallen a little behind and adding these after the fact. My posting (and all productivity, for that matter) went out the window when I either […]
My Return to the Hollywood Bowl
After many months of no live concerts and no Hollywood Bowl season last year, I was finally back for in-person performance. The program was as follows. CATELLANOS: Santa Cruz de Pacairigua RACHMANINOFF: […]
Admiring Japan as an outsider
There has been a lot of news about Japan because of the Olympics, and I’ve been enjoying every minute of it. It’s a nation and culture that I’ve always been curious about […]
We’re in the early infancy of a space age
People have been visiting space for several decades now, but the visits to space these last couple of weeks by private citizens is a remarkable breakthrough. We’re at the very beginning of […]
Daydreaming of traveling to Japan
I watched a video today about an overnight ferry from Osaka to Kagoshima in Kyushu, and I wish I could go and sit by a window and watch the landmasses slowly go […]
My happy place
I used to run here most daily several years ago. 🙂
Lazy Saturday
Walking off the emotional
Things don’t always go as planned. That is something that is a lesson that life insists on teaching every one of us. And so, there is no Wagner post for today because […]
