Taking a little break

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

The past three years have been grueling. Working full time, taking classes towards a masters degree, and being a dad all at the same time was taking a toll. The last few months were especially interesting since I was working on a book project on top of everything. Well, life has ...

LibraryThing

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

LibraryThing is one of my favorite web 2.0 sites. As I mentioned in an earlier post, it is Flickr for bookworms. One of my missions is to always have a book that I'm actively reading - something I keep around with a bookmark in it, reading it whenever I get ...

Recommended Music Reads

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Jason Heath recently noted some book recommendations for musicians from Chicago bassist Greg Sarchet. I have a few of my own that I'd like to add to the mix! Zander, Rosamund, and Benjamin Zander. The Art of Possibility --I complained loudly when I was in Ben's orchestra rehearsals, and thought he was ...

Happy New Year

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

I can't believe it is just hours away from 2006 already. Looking back, 2005 was one of the best. I spent my first year at my dream job, moved into my dream home, practiced a respectable amount of music, completed some study on CSS and PHP, and watched my kids ...