Today is Johannes Sebastian Bach’s 326th birthday. I often think of Bach’s music as mathematical, precise, clinical, and light. But there is one piece he wrote that holds its own with even the heady romanticism of Beethoven: “Air on a G String.” Do you know it? You probably do. Here is a video of Japan’s…
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Erin Go Bragh: Ireland is About Family
In the summer of 2006 I took my father to Ireland. He’s a Montreal-Irishman, son to that classic clan who can be seen running wild in Duddy Kravitz’s St. Urbain Street. Romantically Irish, as the Irish are, he deserved to go to the Old Country. So we packed bags and flew across the ocean. I…
Empiricist
“Ow!” Erin offered as she pulled on her sock. She gets dressed on her own now, with only the occasional (read: constant) imploring from us to just-get-dressed-just-get-dressed-go-get-dressed-get-dressed-where-are-your-pants-go-get-dressed. “What happened?” I asked. “My sock shocked me,” she replied. “It has static electrixity!” “That’s electricity full of Triscuits,” Emily suggested. “Hey! I know! It’s from the slide!”…