Selected Writing
FICTION
- “Parents Weekend” (short story) Belmont Story Review
- “The Other Fathers” (short story) The Tishman Review
- “The Point of View Character” (short story) Philadelphia Stories
- “No Ear for Languages” (short story) Bosque Journal
NONFICTION
- “On Luck” (essay) Violinist.com, Kelly Writers House, NY
- “Never Mind Talent” (essay) Philadelphia Inquirer
- “Talking About Guns” (essay) Philadelphia Inquirer
POETRY
- “Binocular” The Philadelphia Inquirer
- “Narcolepsy,” and “The Cartoon Cat Speaks,” Superstition Review
SATIRE
- Philadelphia Couple With Spider Sense Takes Web Design to New Heights, Medium
- The Sisterhood of the Disappearing Crones, LOLComedy
- Trump Shocks Winter Sports Community with Updates to Olympic Biathlon Rules, The Satirist
NEEDS CATEGORIZING
- A Conversation with William Parberry
- A Fresh Approach To Food
- A Story-Winning Prize
- Adjusting the Focus (Cold Mountain Opera)
- Art Sustains An Elkins Park Jewel
- Brave New Voices
- Coming Full Circle
- Harmonic Convergence
- Material World
- Mentorship Essay
- Mimi Stillman Profile
- Poetry in Superstition Review
- The Critical Circus
- The Outsider Who Wouldn’t Take NO
A Parents’ Guide to Conservatory Auditions is published on the international music site, Violinist.com. The series cover issues of interest to anyone auditioning artist or parent of an artist. Other Violinist.com parenting columns can be located below.
A PARENTS’ GUIDE TO CONSERVATORY AUDITIONS
Part 1: Take Your Vitamins
Part 2: Strategies
Part 3: Trial Lessons
Part 4: Rejection
Part 5: Reach, Match, Safety
Part 6: Other Parents
Part 7: Location, Location, Location
Part 8: I Flunked My Prescreens–Now What?
Part 9: Talent Loves Company
Part 10: Being Good At Being Uncomfortable
Part 11: Winter, Audition-Style
Part 12: Going Solo
Part 13: Luck
Part 14: Social Media
Part 15: After the Audition
Part 16: On Cockeyed Optimism
Part 17: How Do You Pay For It?
Part 18: Cost of Attendance
Part 19: How Do you Pay for It? (Reprise)
Part 20: On Waiting
Part 21: Waitlisted, Now What?
Part 22: Appealing Financial Aid
Part 23: Letting Go
Part 24: Commencement
Part 25: Ranking the Rankings
- The Great Decision
- Talent Education
- The Violin Addiction
- The Cicadas
- Getting’ There
- The Clock on the Table
- Hell is Other Parents
- The Late-Blooming Flower
- But I Played it Perfectly At Home
- In The Bleak Midwinter
- A Tale of Two Quartets
- The Birth-Order Theory
- On Thinking About Polar Bears
- Talking About Talking Practice
- The Bow
- Chromesthesia
- Joyce DiDonato: Four Truths for Young Artists
- Summer Music Camps
- Do What Scares You
- Are Summer Programs Worth It?
- Thinking About Elephants (Ivory)
- Bad Behavior
- Contractor or Collaborator?
- Busking for Life
- Poor Yorick and the Viola
- When School Makes Life Impossible
- Tweeting Beethoven
- When Pigs Fly…But Musical Instruments Don’t
- Ban iPads, Not kids, From the Concert Hall
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