I tend to lean toward being charitable with parents of young children, especially when I read about seemingly preventable tragedies. We get parent-blaming stories about small children escaping adult supervision and getting onto a highway, lost in the woods, climbing into a hot car in their own home’s driveway and getting stuck, drowning in a […]
The age-old question of “inspiration”—where that music comes from—has always fascinated me. Paintings of angels hovering beside composers and dictating new music are common. Music’s origination is often attributed only to centuries-dead geniuses and divine inspiration, certainly nothing that happens now. Of course, as a child, I believed that. Fast-forward to my recent history. Since
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It has been said that the price of a long life is outliving your loved ones. I’m realizing this is an extravagantly costly price. Processing the sudden loss of an age peer friend is beyond difficult. And as my age approaches the biblical three-score and ten, I suspect that losing family and friends will become
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I wrote this several years ago. My feelings are still the same, despite recent “normal” imaging. Perhaps I’m ready to share it now. * * * * * My emotions tend to escalate the last few days before my annual MRI. Little things are more exciting or more annoying; the blasé “everything is okay” mask
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17 Tries The summer I turned fourteen my family trekked across the continent from New York to California and spent some time visiting with my dad’s “little brother,” Uncle Dick and his family. He took us to a nearby lake where he had a ski boat. My über-coordinated older brother quickly learned to ski and
Hi Friends, I’m Evelyn Pursley-Kopitzke, a living composer, and this is my NEW website. I had another one, but it got too expensive and it didn’t do what I needed it to do anyway. It’s a LOT different, and please bear with me while I build the site. As soon as I figure out how to