The DaVinci Code (in C minor)

Slawomir Zubrzycki performing in Cracow October 18th

Most of you probably didn’t notice, but last week was quite an historic one for the music world, particularly for the piano community. And though most of you probably didn’t notice, it was of sufficient significance to have been featured on the evening news. I found the report quite fascinating and wrote to Pam about it last Wednesday evening, wondering if she had heard of it. (She had not.) But even as I was writing the email, Letterman was on and suddenly was talking about this thing. I knew it was big, but I had no idea it was that big. It even made Letterman.

#666: Religion, Politics & Halloween

A few days ago, I sent off the 660 page final accounting report for the closure of Mom’s estate two years 3-1/2 months after Mom died and nearly 9 years since Dad’s death started this enormous estate project. I’ve been working on it all year but with particular intensity since June and have been determined in the last couple of months not to have any other distractions until this was done. That is why this year, the year I turned 60, I did not write my traditional Halloween essay. Until now.