This is Monday of Finals Week, and I have to analyze a Bach piece for Music Theory and attempt to do a good job on the Ear Training final, in addition to playing some music for the college Christmas week festivities. All is going well, and Roscoe will come with me today to the college…

Little by little the semester creeps away and toward Christmas. I wrote a song about Gommy, will post it fairly soon. It’s a capella right now, though it seems to have a stable melody, one that we can all sing together in her honor with gusto. Played piano the greater part of today, am working…

Thanksgiving was great at Mom’s with everyone chipping in with food and Mom making the turkey, stuffing and gravy (yum). Music was had with the Newkirks contributing their usual piano, and Claudia told about how she wants to be a teacher. Sylvia says she wants to get the Cleveland version of Monopoly. A good time…

It is great to be in the weekend before Thanksgiving, doing schoolwork, etc. I wrote a song about Gommy our grandmother, and because we were assigned to do a genre we don’t normally do, I selected hard rock or heavy metal, and the hook of the song is, “Her name was Gommy,” and “Gommy was…

It’s getting to be mid-November, and the trees are still colorful. I don’t remember a more beautiful fall. I am working on a song with another person in my class, collaboration it is, and it is fun! I am also enjoying Christmas shopping, and looking forward to Tommy and Arthur’s birthday party later today. Not…

Wow, college is in full swing now. I had to sing “Over the Rainbow” in Class Voice, plus we have a choir concert tomorrow, and I finished my German Midterm with a 110 out of 106, so I got them all right, but Kapitel 4 (chapter 4) seems to be somewhat harder with the modal…

Hi everyone, it’s about midterm time and I am very busy with all my classes. Tomorrow I get to go to Mandel Hall at Severance Music Center (otherwise known as Severance Hall) and watch soprano Renee Fleming, Simone Dinnerstein pianist, and the Emerson String Quartet. I had my Amazon jingle shortened and sent it out…

I think we captured the song this time. Thanks for listening.

Read a story by Joyce Carol Oates about a nun and a more or less crazily serious college student named Allen Weinstein, In the Region of Ice, and enjoyed it thoroughly although the ending was not happy. In fact I thought the beginning was some of the funniest stuff I had ever read. Had a…

Edna O’Brien’s A Journey was the first story I read for the Women’s Experiences in Women Authors English class I am auditing. A very vivid story about a couple having an affair. I want to read more by Edna O’Brien; she is Irish. And I wrote my first song, Single Again, a somewhat humorous song…