Surviving Music Practice: Parental Endurance Required

BANG! A thunderous scale rushed up the piano keyboard and back down again. It was the usual early morning wake-up call. For the next two hours, the family would be subjected to the tempestuous sounds of an advanced piano student preparing for an exam. After breakfast, a second advanced student would practice for another hour … Read more

My Child Inherited More Than My Genes

  I laughed when I saw it. A meme on social media that said “I was only responsible for the first nine months. After that, you were exposed to your father!” And although it was funny, there was a wry grain of truth in it: when our kids do well, we love to claim the … Read more

One Day We Will Laugh (but not today)

It was one of those days. The crazy – busy kind that begins before the birds are up and ends when you fall asleep at your desk long after everyone else is in bed because you just can’t do one more thing. The kind where you think “one day we will laugh about this – … Read more