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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Whenever I have the opportunity to visit an art museum I haven’t seen before I generally head to the Impressionists. The National Gallery is a serious museum with a wonderful collection of art that [...]