Most of us have been “pigeonholed,” or creatively typecast at some point in our lives.  For all I know, it’s human nature to reduce another person to a particular thing, so we can better identify them.  Yes, it’s lazy.  But it’s awfully convenient. “You’re the girl who plays the jazz [...]

I love the movie, The Princess Bride.  William Goldman’s brilliant screenplay is one of the most quotable scripts of the last twenty years.  And one such line happened when Miracle Max tells Inigo Montoya that his friend, the man in Black, was not all dead, but only “mostly [...]

Generally speaking, music appeals first to our emotions. What is it about a beautiful melody, or evocative harmonies that appeals to the heart?  And if it has a great beat, music reaches some primal drive in us. Music can also appeal to the intellect, but that mostly happens to music nerds. And [...]