Trying an Experiment: Darn I feel like such a slacker letting so much time lapse between blog updates! Overall things are going very well...I seem to have been (for now anyway) spared that dreadful fate I had feared a couple of years ago which tells me I still have a lot of work to do.

Musically, things are at a level that I would have never dared dream even as recently as 2-3 years ago. Sometimes the delightful twists and turns life takes are forgotten when the heavy stuff hits. But the one thing I've learned over the past coupl...