perfect pitch – july 17, 2008
One of my musician friends has perfect pitch. I met him on the American Idol tour two years ago and talked to him about it. Perfect pitch is the ability to identify a pitch [...]
show & tell – may 13, 2008
Remember show and tell? One thing I loved to bring to show and tell year after year was one of the small pieces of the Kitty Hawk fabric that had been divvied up to [...]
15 years & 30,000 feet – february 25, 2008
I have this vague geometric model in my head that represents in an abstract way the return home from any destination. I see the trip back as passing through a funnel that gets increasingly [...]
sound like yourself – january 1, 2008
It was a sound I had to have. I remember hearing it for the first time in songs like Spyro Gyra’s Morning Dance and Catching the Sun. By this time, I was already a [...]
nothing is sacred – september 17, 2007
When something is sacred it is said to be “regarded with reverence” and “properly immune to interference.” We all consider certain things in our lives to be sacred; from the objectively frivolous but subjectively [...]
our town – november 16, 2006
In a rare occurrence, the four Konnor kids are gathered here around my dad’s bed. The nurses and doctors have told us to expect dad to die in the next day or two, so [...]