by admin | Feb 26, 2015 | Blog
n October 29, 2014; game seven of the World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Kansas City Royals. In the bottom of the fifth inning Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner enters the game with the score tied 2-2. In the remaining five innings of the game the...
by admin | Feb 16, 2015 | Blog
n “The map is not the territory.” Alford KorzybskiBehavioral scientists tell us that we are bombarded by over a billion bits of sensory information every second. To cope with...
by admin | Jan 29, 2015 | Blog
n Warner Brothers A happy belated New Year to everyone. After taking most of January off, it’s back to it and this post is geared primarily for students in the MS program—particularly those who will be taking the Master’s theory exam at the beginning of March. Know...
by admin | Dec 22, 2014 | Blog
n Christmas dinner, 1981. At the time I was a grad student at the University of Michigan studying classical trumpet. That first year Carla and I elected not to go home to New Mexico for the holidays but chose instead to stay in frigidly cold and snowy Ann Arbor. We...
by admin | Dec 11, 2014 | Blog
n It’s that time once again. We’re sliding light speed into the holidays with gears stripped and motor racing. In our copious free time we’re to somehow shop for loved ones, friends, and other people we almost sort of like. And then there are the wine geeks on our...
by admin | Nov 24, 2014 | Blog
n From left to right: Ashley Saks, Heidi Seretan, Jen Kabbabe Most of the time this blog is about wine or wine-related things. But it’s Thanksgiving which is always a good time to stop and offer appreciation and gratitude to the people in your life who make a...
