The Apple Smart Keyboard I use with my 12″ iPad Pro is an absolute dream. It’s slim, sleek, protective, versatile in its setups, and super convenient. It charges off the iPad itself and never has to be plugged in! I would buy it over and over again.
Elissa Milne’s Repertoire Rules post is one that I have saved and re-read on occasion. Good stuff.
The difference between brown, green and red lentils.
Nicola has a great way of organizing her piano games using plastic button wallet folders. If you’re looking to organize your games digitally, check out Organizing Piano Games with Evernote.
Piano-playing sisters play to raise money for hurricane relief. Continue reading
I absolutely love watching Julie Knerr teach and have learned a lot from her about teaching young students over the last 5 years. It’s a lot of work making the videos she does, but what a wonderful contribution to the profession! Here’s her most recent video with a student in their first lesson.
Part of my nightly routine and kitchen clean-up always include giving the sink a thorough wipe down. I’ve never gone as far as this lady recommends but last week I cleaned my sink step-by-step as per her instructions and wow, it sure turned out shiny! Spraying Windex all over the sink and wiping it completely dry was the step I was missing. I can’t say I’ll be so diligent every night but I do like a clean sink… Continue reading
British Chef Gordon Ramsay takes a stab at an American-style breakfast. Hash browns, baked eggs, and caramelized bacon. Oh, my.
Deep thoughts on your “ideal piano teacher life” from Joy Morin. Continue reading
Absolutely fascinating. This Music Teacher Played His Saxophone While In Brain Surgery.
A great organizational tip from Jennifer Foxx on organizing your iPad.
PepperMate. My pepper grinder of choice for years now. I love how the removable clear bottom cup conveniently catches fresh pepper grinds which allow you easily to grid and measure for recipes. It’s also Ina Garten’s pepper grinder of choice! (We’re tight, me and Ina 😉
Using Bullet Journaling in your studio. | The View From My Studio
11 Ways to Involve Parents in Lessons.
7 Self-Care Rituals That Take 15 Minutes or Less.
A musical highway. This is SO on my bucket list. Has anyone been? Too bad I didn’t know about this when I went to my first MTNA Conference (2010 was in Albuquerque!)
Recipes that made it into our bellies the past couple of weeks included Mushroom Casserole, Roasted Root Vegetable, Feta, Spinach Salad, and a simple pulled pork. (Note: for the pork, I find 8-12 oz. rather than the 32 oz. of stock is plenty, you can also skip the BBQ sauce recipe and use store-bought or keep it really simple – none at all).
A short but sweet piano teacher musing. | Happy Little Trees
A warm dish to pull you into fall. | Mushroom Casserole
Sara Campbell has a blog post series coming up sharing how she did “Piano Clubs” this summer. Check out the first post here.
Piano Puzzle Card & Pocket Chart for Preschoolers | Karen Lien.
Entropy: Why Life Always Seems to Get More Complicated | James Clear
McDonald’s Asks: Do You Want Sriracha and Kale with that? Hmmm…
Canadian teacher Anne Crosby Gaudet always puts out unique and high-quality products. Her latest item, Emoji Modes is great. Continue reading
The 1 Percent Rule: Why a Few People Get Most of the Rewards | James Clear
Students, did you know you can get 50% off a full year of Evernote Premium? I’m telling you, my life would have been changed if I had a program like Evernote through grad school for all the research and papers. Believe me, the Premium version is the best for students because you can search the text of pdf files, your own handwritten notes, Microsoft documents, and you can annotate on PDFs. It’s gold.
If you want to hear a fabulous jazz/pop one-man band listen to Jacob Collier. His harmonic progressions and voicing are extremely innovative. Gershwin Fascinating Rhythm (his piano playing occurs at 3:00 minutes).
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Last week my first find was a James Clear article and this week is another. I just love his posts. They’re always well researched and thought out. The Paradox of Behavior Change.
How Reading Old Books Gives Us New Perspective | Michael Hyatt. This is one of my goals this year – to include re-reads in my reading list. C.S. Lewis is also known for encouraging the re-reading of books, stating something along the lines of:
I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once… To me, re-reading my favorite books is like spending time with my best friends. I’d never be satisfied to limit myself to just one experience each with my favorite people.
The first book (and if we’re being honest, thus far the only book) I’ve re-read this year was Eat, Love, Pray by Elizabeth Gilbert.
All Models are Wrong, Some are Useful: How to Make Decisions in an Imperfect World | James Clear.
When we lived in Australia, one of the things that were new to us was the lack of drip coffee makers in homes. Instead, many have electric kettles for boiling water. This was something I had never seen! We’ve had one ever since and now I can’t imagine not having one.
It made an amazing graduation present this past May for our friend’s daughter and she is absolutely loving it. It’s perfect for heating water in a dorm room for ramen noodles, tea, hot chocolate, oatmeal, you name it. I won the best-present award! LOL. This is our favorite kettle. Continue reading
