The Clef that Ate Sheboygan

The Clef that Ate Sheboygan

It can smell fear. Like a vicious feral animal, orphaned early, neglected, and abandoned. It has a primitive, atavistic awareness of your weaknesses, it knows what time you take out the trash and knows what it will find when it tips the bins over. It knows how to...
Who Knifed Me In The Face?

Who Knifed Me In The Face?

I’ll admit it—I had been under a lot of stress. It seemed like everything in my life was all of a sudden coming to a head. I was living 2600 miles apart from my wife in what may very well be the world’s worst bachelor pad. My school orchestra was performing at the...

My fancy dancing

I had an amusing and somewhat embarrassing incident happen at a teacher event that I attended last year. I was at an all-day music teacher workshop and was having a great time, like I usually do at this annual event.  The whole day consists of hour-long clinics and...