Last summer, I received a commission to compose a piece that a small choir will perform next March.
“What text should I set to music?” I wondered.
My first thought was to reach out to poets with disabilities, given that this is the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. And, of course, I have a disability. So, I sent an e-mail to all my artist friends and colleagues with a connection to disability, yielding only one poem after…..
Last Sunday morning, I woke up to the chatter on ESPN radio about the turning point of the second playoff game between the New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers. the Dodgers’ Chase Utley broke the Mets’ Ruben Tejada’s leg while successfully preventing the completion of a double play, resulting in a four-run rally. The Dodgers won; Tejada was lost for the rest of the season; and I was blearily upset, in part because I’m a Mets fan.
However, I…..
Last Sunday morning, I woke up to the chatter on ESPN radio about the turning point of the second playoff game between the New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers. the Dodgers’ Chase Utley broke the Met’s Ruben Tejada’s leg while successfully preventing the completion of a double play, resulting in a four-run rally. The Dodgers won; Tejada was lost for the rest of the season; and I was blearily upset, in part because I’m a Mets fan.
However, I…..
Once upon a time, a woman believed that her eyesight didn’t mesh with who she was. After practicing being blind for a while, and with the assistance of a psychologist, several drops of drain cleaner were dribbled into each eye, causing her to become blind. Now, she’s happy.
When my speech software babbled about this news on my Twitter feed, I mentally shrugged, winced, and vaguely wondered about the veracity of the story. Laura Hollis’s October 8, 2015 Townhall.com column…..
A series of bomb scares interrupted my high school education during the spring semester of my freshman year and the fall semester of my sophomore year. About once every three weeks, a fire alarm would rouse the student body, and once outside, some authority figure would tell us that we needed to get off school property as soon as possible. Chaos reigned as we all tried to figure out how we were going to get home. No bombs were ever…..