Here's the video of me playing the piece, but the audio quality of the WAV file below the video is much better.
Chopin completed the 24 preludes while in Mallorca where he spent the winter of 1838-39 in an attempt to …
A not insignificant part of the last 4-5 years of my life has been oriented around my goal to finish the Bear 100. I am deeply grateful to my wife, parents, family and friends who have continued to support me along the way. I would not have made it very …
In August 2025, I started taking piano lessons again after a 15-year break. It has been fun and rewarding, and I wanted to write down some of my thoughts about my personal history with the piano, my intentions and goals, and the process of finding a teacher.
My brain spewed out the following ideas and questions in the final weeks leading up to my departure from my position at Rabo Agrifinance at the end of 2024. Now in August 2025, looking back on this, I do think it accurately captures the way I sometimes feel.
And the …
My plan going into the race was to push it up Dry Canyon and climbing to Logan Peak and just do the rest of the run a little higher than my normal long run intensity. No one super speedy …
Things did not go as I hoped they would, but I am also not too surprised about that. Here are a few notes I made in my training journal during the lead up to this race:
2/12/2023
My current guess is that I'll be able to run my …