It’s a tired little ritual of American sprawl. Developers clear-cut a forest, fill in a wetland, grade a hillside flat, and then, with a flourish, name the resulting cul-de-sac “Treetops.” The irony is so reliable…
No sentence in the next four paragraphs of this admittedly frank, cathartic rambling, to my mind at least, can be refuted. That was the prompt, the challenge I set for myself and ultimately tried to…
The Constitution of India, the world’s longest written constitution of its most populous democracy, contains 146,385 words. It establishes a parliamentary system with a President as the head of state and a Council of Ministers…
I was fortunate to have been taught sentence diagramming from an early age, not realizing at the time that music, another language I had just begun to explore, could be analyzed in a similar way…
This quote from 1979’s Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich continues with “…not when we are clean. Anyone will love us when we're clean. It makes you think the best way to hold on to…
The song didn’t come on the radio, I wasn’t playing it live at a gig, it didn’t even pop into my head during a morning walk; I just abruptly remembered that the song “Africa,” the…
Today, 340 years ago, in Eisenach, the capital of the duchy of Saxe-Eisenach, in present-day Germany (21 March 1685 O.S.) Johann Sebastian Bach was born. I will celebrate by playing the Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro…
