... and other useless things I learned from almost ten years of piano lessons.  Like how to shape your hands and how that'll come in handy someday when those same hands become arthritic. You'll know exactly just how much shaping is cool before it approaches uncool...

I'm in the midst of a love affair.  Not with Granny Smith but with her apples.  They're green and probably the most bitter of the green apples.  This love affair has been going on for quite a while.  I eat at least one per day even though 2-3 per week is the preferred...

What a conundrum.  My dog Stella is petrified by street noise and other pedestrians walking in her path.  The sidewalks are really narrow here and the homeless tend to stretch their legs and render half of it out of order.  And keeping with her high anxiety, she's a...