Required reading for all parents: Calvin & Hobbes. Read. It. Read all of them, every collection. You will be a much better parent. A better person, too.

True confession time again (is it Thursday already??). I've fallen behind on the clarinet schedule I'd given myself. I will not give up, though. I need to find some decent jazz studies. My studies are all classical, which is great and lovely and all that, but … I need jazz. On my way to club on Sunday afternoon, I was listening to a 17-year-old saxophone player on the radio. I was inspired and jealous. So I'm back to working on my poor old tired fingers.