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  • Motivated Monday

    I experience quite a large mood shift in the colder months when the days get shorter. I noticed it pretty severely last year, and this year I’m making positive changes to help better cope with it. [read more]

  • Seeking Equipment Recommendations

    Seeking Equipment Recommendations

    I am asking for equipment suggestions. I’m ok with my sound but feel like it could definitely be better. Being so far removed from the college scene, I feel I’ve been somewhat stuck in a rut (not really) using the same equipment recommended to me by my absolute favorite clarinet professor, the late Dallas Tidwell, but that was 2006-2008. Even so, I feel it’s time to upgrade. [read more]

  • I love you.

    to those of you i see every day, i love you. i love that you’re part of my life and i love that we’re able to share bits and pieces throughout our days. to those i see occasionally, i love you. we don’t spend as much time together as i’d like, and i wish it [read more]

  • Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don’t have the remote knowledge how to be close to them without quills being shot in your direction. Shannon L. Alder [read more]

  • Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you. Kahlil Gibran [read more]

  • If I’ve learned anything from video games, it’s that if you run into an enemy, you’re going in the right direction. [read more]