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I play the clarinet. I played the clarinet. Well, either way when I hear that instrument it is like hearing my own voice. In this essay, I'm seated on a cushion in New Orleans listening to a clarinetist at close range. ​http://bangalorereview.com/2019/09/preservation-hall-at-the-feet-of-my-voice/
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"In the Form of a Charm Bracelet"
My writing colleague, Jessica Klimesh, recently started her own proofreading and editing business, and her business website includes a blog. She's been doing some great stuff there, so naturally I was honored to be invited to guest-post! Here's my contribution about using a visual model to help describe travel writing: ​https://jekproofreadingandediting.com/in-the-form-of-a-charm-bracelet/?preview=true&fbclid=IwAR1GAaF9gj4fGA7kL_qr83jcitSpIxfGTrHcmxMpmlVvzG-E0XPJpSVqy64
This fine anthology of New Jersey related writing includes an essay about Cape May Point by me! Just released in October, 2019, it is available from the publisher (http://www.readfuriously.com/p/the-world-takes.html), from live bookstores, and from those online booksellers, too.
So there was this young man seated behind me on a Vienna bus in 2015. It seemed he didn't like the concert we had just heard which featured the music of Johann Strauss, Jr., and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. I loved the concert. It was light, fun, and very Viennese. As the young man bloviated, I got madder and madder, and ultimately channeled this anger into an essay entitled "Defending the Waltz King." ​www.clevermag.com/essays2/defend.htm
I had a chance to adopt a shiny black baby grand piano. Would it fit in my living room? I figured the piano was as long as I was tall, stretched out on my living room floor to make sure, and then called the piano movers. Read the story in The Piano I Haven't Met Yet in Dragon Poet Review (p. 38). ​https://dragonpoetreview.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/summer-fall-2018-issue-dragon-poet-review1.pdf
By request, I put together a three-week course on the Harlem Renaissance for my biggest fans at a nearby retirement village. This was my first interdisciplinary course as I combined music, literature, art, and dance. It became my most popular course and eventually I delivered a 90-minute lecture on the topic and was interviewed by some eighth graders working on a project. My essay about the experience has recently been published in the Bangalore Review. bangalorereview.com/2017/09/teaching-harlem-renaissance/
I wrote this piece from a prompt: "Describe an Act of Kindness." This experience from Durnstein, Austria, popped into my head immediately. pinkpangea.com/2016/09/memories-kindness-danube/

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