Be Intentional about Your Improvement

Want to get better? Be intentional about it. Plan out your development. Think about what you need to do to improve and build a schedule or routine. This isn’t just for weight lifting, but for most anything in life. A month ago I was playing some hymns on my flute and realized that I hadn’t [...]

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Review: The War of Art

If you look on Amazon, you’ll see that Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art is highly recommended with over 200 5 star reviews (roughly 2/3 of the reviews listed). For part of the book, I’ll agree. For the rest of it, not so much. Let me explain. The book is divided into three distinct parts: [...]

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Creativity Goals for 2010

I’m evaluating the goals I have for 2010, and I’m breaking them based on a rough area of focus. The first list I really have together is the one of my creative goals for this year. They are: Learn to Sew – I really want to learn how to sew, and sew well, for this [...]

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Review: Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life

After reading one book by Wynton Marsalis, To a Young Jazz Musician: Letters from the Road, I went looking for more. I have an awesome public library, one that was rated the best in the nation a few years ago. They have a couple more books, including one that’s part biography and part auto-biography, Jazz [...]

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Review – To a Young Jazz Musician: Letters from the Road

Hopefully Wynton Marsalis needs no introduction. If he does, follow the link! I’ve followed him for a long time as he represents one of the greatest musicians of our generation. And as a great musician, not just a great jazz musician, as he is sometimes thought of, he took the time to impart some of [...]

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