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Why is it that as soon as we get what we want, we suddenly decide that we don’t really want it after all? This afternoon, my mother watched my 11-month-old son, Jonah, while I picked blueberries.
This is the same 11-month-old son who, from the time he was about 6 weeks old simply refused to be held [...]

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Shocking, I know.
Watching television doesn’t make kids smarter….really?

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In a recent master class I attended, concert flutist Sir James Galway commented that the reason musicians stay and teach music in a school or become a career orchestral player is that they are not good enough to have a solo career. I see this pervasive attitude a lot in our world today. It seems that the better someone is at something the less likely they will stoop to tasks beneath their [...]

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