Christmas: Arranged and Orchestrated
Last year, a friend suggested that I join ASMAC, the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers. I was hesitant. Although I...
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Digital Rabbit
- Dec 21, 2021
- 2 min
Winter’s Gifts: Stars
I can’t remember the last time that I attended a choral concert. All of the chorus works I’ve heard in recent years have been part of an...
Digital Rabbit
- Oct 27, 2021
- 4 min
Traveling in the Time of Covid
Planning a trip requires a great deal of research and knowledge of the logistics required to make things go smoothly. I love planning...
Digital Rabbit
- Jul 4, 2021
- 1 min
My Inner Gardener is Here to Stay
Last year my friends convinced me to grow vegetables. Reluctantly, I got two elevated, raised beds for my back porch and then found an...
Digital Rabbit
- Jul 4, 2021
- 1 min
The First Happy Hour
Emerging from sheltering at home is like being born again. Many things that I took for granted before, are supremely enjoyable now like:...
Digital Rabbit
- Jul 3, 2021
- 2 min
Masks Away!
On March 18, 2020 (see The Journey Begins) I started writing about my time at home during the pandemic. At that time, the authorities...
Digital Rabbit
- Mar 31, 2021
- 3 min
Where I Am From
I am from a long line of orphans. Perhaps the line isn’t that long, but abandoned babies don’t have the luxury of genealogy. My...
Digital Rabbit
- Mar 29, 2021
- 2 min
Kindness and the Literary Essay
A few weeks ago I took a workshop on the literary essay, led by Perrin Kerns (image below). I didn't know what a literary essay was when...
Digital Rabbit
- Jan 30, 2021
- 2 min
Masking in Monterey
The hotels industry reopened this week in Monterey, so I booked a room at the Spindrift Inn on Cannery Row. Situated on the beach, the...
Digital Rabbit
- Jan 18, 2021
- 1 min
Global Warming? Nah!
Today I took a drive down the coast from San Gregorio to Capitola. When I passed through Santa Cruz, the temperature had risen to 80...
Digital Rabbit
- Jan 17, 2021
- 2 min
Designers Set Back Accessibility Advances
For decades, differently abled people have been fighting for the right to participate in society. Accommodations for wheelchair users are...
Digital Rabbit
- Jan 16, 2021
- 3 min
Starting Over With Email
One of the benefits of working at Apple for 22 years was that I was on the forefront of all new technologies. I was required to try out...
Digital Rabbit
- Jan 13, 2021
- 1 min
A Revised Category
When the shelter-in-place order began in March, 2020, I starting writing a blog post a day. Back then, it seemed all we had to do was to...
Digital Rabbit
- Aug 1, 2020
- 1 min
Walking to Tacoma
I've taken 1,693,819 steps since March 16. That's an average of more then 12,000 steps per day, every day, seven -->
Digital Rabbit
- Jul 31, 2020
- 2 min
The Nose at the Met
Dmitri Shostakovich’s first opera, The Nose, is a satirical tale of a St. Petersburg official who wakes up without a nose—just a -->
Digital Rabbit
- Jul 29, 2020
- 3 min
From Bayreuth to New York: Tannhäuser
I purchased a ticket to watch the Bayreuth (Germany) production of Tannhäuser, but the streaming link never arrived. Glen and I were -->
Digital Rabbit
- Jul 20, 2020
- 2 min
Domestic Diversions
I am a traveler. After 16 trips last year and 2 earlier this year, it was difficult to have my travel life come to a screeching -->
Digital Rabbit
- Jul 18, 2020
- 4 min
The Bayreuth Festival
The highlight in any true fan of Richard Wagner’s music is a visit to Bayreuth to attend the annual Bayreuther Festspiele to hear -->
Digital Rabbit
- Jun 27, 2020
- 1 min
A Caravan to Gilroy
Fifty percent of the produce in the USA comes from California. Farm workers get paid very little. Yet they put themselves at risk to -->
Digital Rabbit
- May 31, 2020
- 1 min
The Journey Ends
Today is the last day of mandatory shelter at home. As people integrate themselves more and more into "normal" activities, I expect to →