I write the songs that make the whole world sing. I write the songs of l--- and special things. I write the songs that make the young girls cry. I write the songs, I write the songs. Look at me, he said. I…

I found out that I tend to dig my nails into the ground when doing push-ups. Now I have dirt underneath my fingernails. What if I had taken eight years of trumpet lessons instead of eight years of piano lessons? Noth…

When the lesser trumpets first received the well-worn folder of second-trumpet graduation music, we exclaimed over the timeless legacies scrawled across the folder back while chummily linking arms and swapping phone numb…