October 2011
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A Visit From The Loon Squad
Last week, on a particularly grey wednesday, I had a harp lesson at 4’o’clock and a gig I was going to at 8, so I decided to while away the harpless between-hours at the bookshop around the corner from Berklee, on Newbury Street.
After three years studying Literature (with a big L) at university, I am still overwhelmed and overjoyed to be aboard the good ship ‘Choose...
A Battle of Wits
There are birds currently tweeting VERY LOUDLY outside my window.
To make matters worse, they are very much NOT in time with my metronome.
At this point it is unclear who will back down first.
So now we play the waiting game….
(The metronome, relentless and bold, is giving this game a very ‘Countdown’ feel. I like it a lot.)
One Hour Later
Both parties still going...
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Soon the duet will become a trio
This is the third, and final instalment of my blog triumvirate. The first was about a man in Lederhosen. The second was largely about my deeply uncool, but unabashed love of The Sound of Music. Now, as we reach Blog III, Return of the Killer Blog, it’s about my first concert in Arlington.
September 25th was, for me, a day of many firsts.
It was my first concert in Arlington, at the...
On Lederhosen and Being Lonely (or not)
So to bring you up to speed, in case you’ve just started reading, and think this is a blog about German fashion and its impact on the Emo sensibility, I can’t emphasise enough how much it isn’t that.
It is in fact a blog about moving to Boston, and learning to play jazz on the harp. In disguise.
This is the second part of a blog trilogy. A triblogy, if you will. I...
Suspicious...
Today has been a busy day, and I’ve had a lot on the boil. Not literally, because I don’t have a stove here, but to say ‘I’ve had a lot going on in my mind-microwave’, pairing my cerebral and culinary states with greater accuracy, is not a phrase I want associated with my good name. I thank you.
I am therefore going to break up today’s main thoughts into...
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VFAQ
On my website (coming soon! WOW!) I have an FAQ section. This is mainly for enquiries regarding weddings and events – you know the drill. What I really want to put up, however, is a section of VFAQ.
VERY frequently asked questions (in case that wasn’t obvious from the acronym)
Oh, now it looks like WOW was an acronym. It wasn’t. It was just the word ‘wow’.
I feel like...
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A curious encounter
I was speaking with a man at the supermarket today. He asked what I was doing here in America, and when I told him I was studying the harp, he said:
‘The harp! YES! The cello of the opera!’
I have no idea what that means, (as I pointed out, VERY firmly)* but I know that I like it.
I think that’s what I’ll tell people from now on.
Next time someone asks me whether...
