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My first adventures: travel & transformation

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My first adventures: travel & transformation

“The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.” – Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad

Holding Sweet Pea and Monkey’s passports, I find it both interesting and exciting that at an age where they could barely talk or walk...

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When the orchestra got sloshed: the Italian concept of time

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When the orchestra got sloshed: the Italian concept of time

The first time I went to Italy, I was a young musician participating in an opera and classical music festival sponsored by University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.  Since this was a program run by Americans and attended by mostly Americans, we were in a…

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