Zoom Again

When is it worth having a Zoom meeting in 2023? I admit that I don’t prefer Zooming to in-person meetings. However, there are several situations when I think that Zooming is better than any alternative, and we can take advantage of our new skills in video conferencing. I don’t always […]

Weather Reminds You

Sometimes we need reminding that we aren’t totally in control. You can be reminded by an illness that flattens you, or a mistake in performance that never happened in rehearsal. You can be reminded by other humans around whose plans undermine your own. My favorite way of surrendering control, though, […]

Good Enough

I remind myself frequently that most things we use are simply good enough. Not perfect. Good enough. That goes for our technological devices – good enough to do what we need them to do. (Unless, maybe, you’re using a school-issued device…) It goes for our musical notation system, which has […]