San, Emily and Jacob

The day after the bloodshed in Pittsburgh my brother and I played a family concert as part of the 100thanniversary of Shaarey Zedek...

Laz, Emily, our friend Eric Fithian and I sang at the March for Our Lives rally in Ann Arbor on March 24th. When we began playing at...

On December 14, 2012, at about eleven in the morning, my brother and I were packing up our guitars and other instruments in the...

I recently saw Wild Swan Theatre’s production of Jeff Duncan and Brian E. Buckner’s musical, Rosie the Riveter. If you don’t already...

Kids are Kids the Whole World Round was the first elementary school musical that my brother and I wrote. Published in 1997 by the Hal...

When my twin brother and I began attending grade school in 1955, in Budapest, Hungary, our father applied for, and received, special...

Throughout my adult life I have voted regularly, and have paid more than cursory, if less than exhaustive attention to candidates and...

At the start of my sophomore year at Eastern Michigan University, I was given the assignment in one of my classes to watch a TED talk by...

I met Phyllis Weikart in the mid 1970s when, on a whim, I decided to take a folk dance class at the UofM. My only previous experience...

My mother was tone deaf. Profoundly. If she hummed a song without its lyrics, you’d have to ask her to identify the melody. No...