This year, my reading journey was shaped by the San Jose Rotary Club book club, recommendations from my niece Koren, and my own literary...

Humor is one of the most delightful and distinctive aspects of the human experience. While many people judge the humanity of an AI by how...

The mouse that captivated the hearts of children and adults is finally entering public domain. It has been 100 years since Disney created...

San José Chamber Orchestra has a concert each year to mark the end of the old and the start of the new. Held at 3:00 PM, it provides...

For the past few years I’ve had a goal to read 52 books a year.  This year I managed to read 57 books. Many were hefty tomes, like Barack...

The colorful ads for Shen Yun Performance (https://www.shenyun.org) company have been popping up in the San Jose area for more than a...

I started using ChatGPT sometime ago as my primary search engine. It summarizes a large amount of information and presents it to me...

Since the beginning of October I've been writing music using Sptitfire audio modules. (See At Sea: Composing Music While Sailing to...

Music, music, music. What can I say? My friend Alan says “Music is my life’s blood.” I agree with him. But that can take the form of...

I continue to strive for 10,000 steps per day. I took this image on the night of December 24, but it still represents this year’s...

Entertainment covers a lot of ground. In this post I will ignore any streaming binges or serials that I’ve watch this year and instead...

Community work isn’t something I’ve written about since I’ve been doing retrospectives. Dut my activity is picking up so I thought I’d...

I spent a fair amount of time this year on photography, both taking workshops and capturing images. I started the year with an Equatorial...

This year we are back to pre-pandemic travel. Most of our travel was by car, to places in California, but we also went to Seattle three...

I was invited to give two presentations about past travel, the first for the Georgia Photography Club, a member of the Photographic...

My reading list reflects gifts I’ve been given, places I travel to, things I want to learn, book reviews I’ve read, and a few books I’ve...

The Photographic Society of America (PSA) has a 365 Day Project for photographers to submit an image a day for a year. PSA supplies a...

Since 2019 I’ve begun each year by writing about my accomplishments. I find that looking back on all the things I’ve done over the past...

Now that I've declared my piece, Transitions, "finished", I am solidly in the tweaking phase. I brought each section as audio files into...

One of my hopes in life has been to write a piece of music for orchestra. I got a very late start in life learning anything significant...