by admin | Nov 22, 2012 | Blog
n My friends and family all know about it. To students who visit our house for coaching, it’s become a sort of “B” movie legend. Carla, the kids, and I live with it every day so we barely think about it. I’m referring to our downstairs bathroom just off the...
by admin | Nov 13, 2012 | Blog
n “Baseball is 90% mental — the other half is physical.” Yogi BerraTo a linguistics specialist, life is filled with conditional sentences, or “if – then” clauses. For the rest of us...
by admin | Nov 3, 2012 | Blog
n Giants!First off, congratulations to the Giants for sweeping the Tigers in the World Series. I will be the first to admit I didn’t see it coming especially after counting them out twice during the divisional and league championship series. Being a long-time...
by admin | Oct 17, 2012 | Blog
n The classical music industry is in the tank. It’s been there for a while. As of this writing, the orchestras in Minneapolis and Indianapolis are both on strike. Last year the Philadelphia Orchestra, one of the country’s finest and most venerated musical arts...
by admin | Oct 8, 2012 | Blog
n As a kid, I remember watching Johnny Carson do his monologue on the Tonight Show. Aside from all the jokes, some good and others lame, what really struck me was how dramatically Carson changed in mere seconds from back stage to the bright lights. After the curtains...
by admin | Oct 1, 2012 | Blog
n This is a follow up to the recent post on Champagne service. As with Champagne service, decanting is a very straight forward process with really only one way to do it correctly and a multitude of ways to do it wrong. Here’s a step by step break down accompanied by...