I'm in Boulder, CO right now and it's Day 2 of my workshop. I hung out with folks from U Hawaii, Eastman School of Music, Rice, and 7 other universities at dinner. I'm beginning to understand why my director was nudging me to participate. I think the more intense parts are yet to come so we'll see how that goes ( Read more... )

Ok, while I still spend time trying to recover from this thing Jana carried home, I get a call today in the middle of the afternoon to bring Jana home early because of a 101F fever. Not related to the disease of the last couple of weeks. Apparently, a number of kids had the fever last week ( Read more... )

I tried to squeeze in a bunch of gardening tasks before Jana woke up first thing in the morning ( Read more... )