Click for Part I. Click for Part II. Click for Part III. Click for Part IV. The concert pianist dutifully greeted his audience at the...

Click for Part I. Click for Part II. Click for Part III. I hauled both 50 pound suitcases, my fiddle, and a backpack around the Sydney...

"Locker room talk" was the latest hot topic in the news, to a reeling nation that had no idea what horrors and embarrassments were in...

Click for Part I. Click for Part II. Withdrawal from anti-depressants or not, my concert pianist was always passionate about enjoying the...

(Image is from Baz Luhrmann's Broadway production of La Boheme from 2002, I do not own any rights.) As the main stream world decorates,...

Click here for Part I. Oysters on the half shell were a mutual obsession of ours, and according to my concert pianist, the best in the...

...and all of the people, with nothing to do, nothing to lose... I was a kid of the '90's, yet completely missed being part of the MTV...

Going to Australia while suffering the trauma of a decimated career (read that saga here) was not the condition I wanted to be in, to be...

Click for Part I. Click for Part II. Click for Part III. Click for Part IV. Click for Part V. Click for Part VI. Click for Part VII....

Click for Part I. Click for Part II. Click for Part III. Click for Part IV. Click for Part V. Click for Part VI. One more voyage until I...

I've been cheated by you since I don't know when... Another voyage, another new set of passengers, another opening formal night...

It was pitch black in my cabin on the second deck, well below the water line on our tiny ship. I was sound asleep, when SUDDENLY THERE...

I got an email from my college voice teacher one afternoon -- she was wondering if she could refer me to a local composer, as he was...

**adult language and content** "The Entertainer" ringtone sang out from my LG flip phone in July of 2007, as I finished up my summer jobs...

We docked in Bangkok, Thailand, and eagerly rushed to the shuttle bus that would take us downtown -- away from the protests that were...

Click for Part I. Click for Part II. Click for Part III. Click for Part IV. Click for Part V. I returned to my cabin after rehearsal, to...

"I've signed you up a new student for Thursday morning," my boss Bart phoned me. "He's an adult, he seems a little bit...off...but...

Singapore has two cruise ship terminals. The old one is connected to a shopping mall, is in a more centralized location, has better...

Click for Part I. Click for Part II. Click for Part III. Click for Part IV. The show "Maestro" was finally put to rest. No more...

Upon losing my job during what was easily the worst year of my life, (read that story here), I had decided the best way to move forward...