Listening to a piano being tuned in the background, I thought, “How therapeutic this sound is.” I typically like to stay in the same...

The cloudy weather outside created a soft, hazy ambience in my practice room, especially with no lights on. The gentle melodic line of a...

“How can I be happy?” A teenage piano student of mine asked this question abruptly in the middle of a lesson. I gazed at the black and...

I placed my subway card on the entrance machine before passing through the gate. Beep! You may enter. The AI voice of the machine...

I kept rereading a text from my friend, Allen, over and over again. "It is time for me to end the journey now. I am running out of gas. A...

This week, I made another visit to a winter wonderland—Maine—for my concert. Since Boston was the nearest city and airport, I decided to...

Last week, I traveled from NYC to the small town of Jasper, Indiana, for a concert. The stark transition—from San Diego's sunny spring...

If you recall, about two years ago, I shared that I had started a five-year journal in 2023. There are five squares on one page to write...

Several years ago, an audience member came up to me after a concert and told me, “You seem to be too normal to be able to perform in the...