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As we shift into fall-scheduling mode, find inspiration for setting your own daily work-life schedule by hearing highlights and snippets from seven previous teacher-talk guests.
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Amy: If you’ve been around here any amount of time, there’s a chance you’ve heard me talk about the glorious gift we have as independent teachers to design a schedule that fits where life is for us at the moment. In fact, I even have a presentation I do for teacher groups designed around this entire theme called evolutionary entrepreneurialism.
You may be in a time of life where you’re the main breadwinner and you work Tuesdays through Saturdays as you have better luck getting students on Saturdays. You may be raising young children and need to teach only between the hours of 4 and 6. You might like a very balanced schedule of teaching from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and then from 4 to 6 p.m. Since we’re beginning the shift into fall scheduling mode, I wanted to use this Teacher Talk episode to highlight clips from 7 previous Teacher Talk guests over the past 80 episodes. Asking guests to give us a peek into their daily or weekly routine is one of my favorite questions as Like Ashley Danyew, one of my guests said, she said, it’s just fun to be a little snoopy like that.
And I agree. In all seriousness, though, it’s really just a relief to hear how daily life and work weave together for our peers and to find inspiration in what others are doing. Whether it’s in pedagogical approaches or calendar management.
I’m Amy Chaplin, and this is the Piano Pantry podcast, a show about living life as an independent music teacher. I wanted to take a moment to let you know that if you follow me on social media, you’ll now find me on Instagram at Piano Pantry Amy. If you were already following me at Amy Chaplin Piano, you’re good to go. I’ve simply changed my Instagram handle name. Again, that’s Piano, Pantry Amy. That’s me. Feel free to contact me there or on Facebook at Piano Pantry.
Ben Kapilow is the resident music director at the Media Theater for the Performing Arts in Media, Pennsylvania, where he teaches a private studio of 60 students and music directs musicals for the Broadway and Children’s series. He’s the host of All Keyed Up, an interview podcast aimed at piano teachers.
Ben: I wake up on a normal day around 8 a.m., always a cup and a half of coffee in the morning, and cereal depending on the day. Sometimes, I do an exercise class in the morning, and then usually, the morning is when I do my work. So I do scheduling, I work on the podcast if I have anything to do in terms of bills, or just general logistical work, unless we’re in a rehearsal for a show at my theater.
We have two and a half weeks to rehearse each show, and we do three to five shows a year. So if I’m in rehearsal, then that’s my morning, and then I just go straight to rehearsal. But if it’s a normal day, the morning is all about logistical work and then the afternoon is teaching. And I usually go from, again, so much of it depends on what’s going on at the theater.
So if we’re in rehearsals, then I have the whole night to teach if I want to. But if we’re in performances, then there’s an evening show, which usually starts at seven. So my teaching window is. From when the kids get off of school until about seven so maybe three to seven teaching and then Do a show that evening.
But if it’s not a show that I can teach on it. So it really depends. And then, if it’s the weekend, then I don’t have to worry about school. So I have more teaching, but then we might have more shows. So Saturday is when we have two shows, and then the summer is completely different too. So, I enjoy not having a rigid daily schedule and that every day is a completely different thing.
Amy: That is so life-giving to me, to have it be different not only during each day of the week, but through the seasons as well.
Ben: So then I come back home, and then one thing that I’m very obsessed with, that I, to me, is a game changer, is I have a different reward set up for every night that I come home.
So I have something to look forward to throughout the day, and I’m like, maybe a little bit overly obsessive about it compared to what I could be, but I have each day; it’s something, so one day might be a dessert day, one day might be like a pizza day, one day might be wine night, one day might be I, I make a point that I’m not going to do any work when I get home, but there are some rewards set up every evening before I go to sleep.
Amy: That is so cool. I’ve never heard anybody tell me say that before. So you, have you been doing that for a long time, or is it something you’ve been doing just recently to just, I don’t know, motivate yourself, or what inspired you to start doing something like that?
Ben: It was mostly inspired by once the pandemic hit and I was teaching all day. I’m not doing that anymore, but like during the lockdown part of the pandemic, I would teach just endlessly. And I know I’m not the only person who did that, but I did have a little bit of a struggle when the lockdown part of the pandemic first happened, teaching for that many hours back to back, especially all Zoom teaching.
Amy: Oh, it was. Yeah. Yeah.
Ben: I don’t know if you’ve had the experience of going six hours on Zoom.
Amy: Oh, yeah. It’s really draining. Yeah. Yeah. I was gonna have a breakdown at one point during that pandemic and all those Zoom lessons.
Ben: Yeah, I’m sure we all had to do that. I don’t know if you still are doing a lot of that anymore. But yeah, so much. Yeah, me neither. I would say about maybe 80 percent in person and 20 percent Zoom, but when it was 100 percent Zoom and all day, like 7 days a week, where my whole life was, at least career-wise, just Zoom teaching. I had struggled with keeping up my energy for the whole day, and so I did feel like having even just the slightest bit, even if it’s just, you have ice cream planned at the end of the day, that would be one thing that if I just, Just quickly think about the fact that ice cream is coming.
I can get motivated a lot more for the next lesson.
Amy: I have to say, I know what you mean, though, because, like my husband and I, we have some things seasonally that we super enjoy, like in the evening, and okay, my whole day I’m like excited to do this, and right now, in the wintertime, It’s to sit in front of the fire.
Like we burn, we love our fire. We have a big wood-burning fireplace. That’s great. And it’s just so relaxing and the popping and the crackling and it’s gets me through the day. I’m looking forward to sitting in front of that fire every night. And that’s after you’re done teaching . Do you do the fireplace?
Yes. Yep. Yep. Yeah. So after I’m making dinner, he will get a fire going and, and read a book in front of the fireplace or whatever, practicing my French, you know.
And then in the summertime, we have a back porch, and it’s just a great area. It’s shaded, and it’s a nice place to read. And, so it’s just little things like that are nice. Yeah, absolutely.
Ben: I mean, it’s the smallest thing, like just being able to read outside, like what you said, or just sit in front of the fire or whatever.
Amy: Karen Thickstun is a professor of piano pedagogy at Butler Independent Studio and the founding director of the art school. She holds a degree in economics and business administration. At the time of this recording, Thickstun was serving as president of Music Teachers National Association.
Karen: Let me describe for 20 years especially as I was running the community art school and teaching and doing a church job and trying to do MTNA and other professional development things.
Things did work best when I had a schedule like this, and that was teaching Monday through Thursday, coming to Indianapolis Butler University Monday through Thursday, and Saturdays. I need to back up here for a moment. Your listeners don’t realize that I live in a small rural Indiana town an hour and a half south of Indianapolis.
Amy: So you drive a lot, or you drove a lot.
Karen: I drove three hours a day.
Amy: Wow.
Karen: And the only way that worked was to not drive ever during rush hour. Smart. Rush hour is no fun. In Indianapolis or anywhere else, a typical schedule is that I would have mornings at home with my husband and my dog. Now, my husband’s been retired for many years, so this fits his schedule perfectly, too.
And that from 11 to 1 is my commute time. And then, I would be here on campus to teach from about 1 to 8 p.m. And then I’d have 8 to 10 p.m. to commute back home. And then, from 10 to 12, I’m a night owl. I’m not a morning person that helps from 10 to 12, to decompress, organize, do my workout, things like that.
The key to that Monday through Thursday and Friday off is that driving five days in a row, I found, was too much, but four days felt okay. Yeah. Long, long time. Of course, that was a factor in retiring, and I knew I could give up the commute.
Amy: Sure, and I think that’s a good life balance thing to just let your body will tell you what feels right. You try it one way, and then you make adjustments based on what feels right what feels good and what feels healthy as well.
Karen: Absolutely. It took me a while to figure that out, but eventually, I was fine. Listen to your body, but listen to your heart too, because you have to do what you love to do.
And being here on Saturdays meant I had to give up a lot of weekend activities that other people do.
Amy: Right.
Karen: Which I’m rediscovering now. So that’s good.
Amy: Good for you.
Karen: But it allowed me to be here to support the community art school, but also to teach for many years, I taught a group class for five and six year olds. And that was just one of those most joyous classes that I’ve ever.
Amy: Aren’t they adorable?
Karen: And they are so eager. To learn everything. Yeah. Yeah. They didn’t do it all.
Amy: Episode number 15 and the third teacher talk of the podcast was with friends Joy Morin of colorinmypiano.com, Janna Williamson of jannawilliamson.com, and Christina Whitlock of the Beyond Measure Podcast. We were gathered together in my home to watch the 2022 MTNA national conference online together.
Janna: I teach four days a week, so Monday through Thursday. My kids are all currently in full-day school, so I have tried to put as many students prior to them coming home as possible, which is always a challenge, especially if you’re only teaching pre-college ages, which is what I do. I tend to start between 1. 30 and 2, and then teach until about 5, so that then I have dinner and the evening with my kids. On two evenings, I have one or two lessons after a long dinner break. I do not go straight through. I know many people go straight through till 7 or 7:30, but I just can’t because I have to get my kids where they need to go. I’m the taxi driver, so right now, that’s working for me, and then morning.
I do practice, and I offer teacher consultations, and then Fridays are pretty much reserved for doing online work with other teachers, making videos, those kinds of things. And I do not work on the weekends. I do occasionally play for church, so sometimes I play on Sunday mornings, but even that is infrequent. And of course there’s the occasional collaborative work on the weekend, but even that I try to do as little as I possibly can.
Joy: Nice. My day sounds somewhat similar to yours, I think, Janna. I have most of my teaching starting from maybe 3 or 4 o’clock in the afternoon. And then I like to try to be done by 6, 6:30 if I can. I find I just lose a lot of energy by 7. And that’s also Aria’s bedtime, and I definitely like to be part of the bedtime routine in the evenings. Yeah, my husband watches Aria while I teach, and so it works really great. He works from 8 to 4, and then he can usually watch Aria if I do want to start at 3.
Then he can just have her up in his home office upstairs for that hour’s transition there. That’s working for us for right now, and hopefully, we’ll continue to work that way. Yeah, so during the day is like a flexible time, I’m watching Aria, and depending on her nap schedule or just if she’s, if we’re doing something together or if she’s entertaining herself with toys, I can potentially get random work done, writing a blog post or doing, I always have numerous projects going, which don’t, I don’t know, sometimes they’re long term projects, sometimes they’re short things that I’m cranking out, but.
So that’s a peek at my days. It’s flexible from day to day, but I usually have some loose idea of what I want to get done through the week. So I have a couple of homeschooled students that I teach from 9 to 10 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I’m trying to think if there’s anything else.
On Fridays are open like what Jana was describing. I have an adult student that I teach every other week, but otherwise, I try not to put students on Fridays if I can. So that gives me a larger block of time to work on projects if I want to.
Amy: I will fess up on the no teaching on Fridays thing. That is the best thing I’ve ever done too. So I would encourage teachers, if you can do that, to consider whether you can cut out a day of the week and maybe squeeze it all into four days.
Christina: So I’m so jealous I could do it. I am. Oh my goodness, you guys, so For those of you who aren’t in the know, My husband spent a good chunk of the pandemic. Without a job because 20 years was eliminated in budget cuts and that kind of thing. So this past Summer, I just loaded myself with as many students as I could because I was feeling the pressure of supporting the family.
I normally like to hover my student load around 30, but again, I’m currently at 48. And that includes things like, I have a student who comes for an hour on Tuesday mornings from 6:30-7:30 am. And it hurts just thinking about it. But he’s a great kid. He’s a great kid. And I also, I mean I teach until 7:30 every night. I Play taxi for my kids to and from school, and they’re in different schools this year So that’s a thing and then I am at Taylor two days a week. I’ve got a lot of adult students and homeschool students through the mornings and afternoon,s and right now I’m just stressing you out talking about it.
I know because I’m just like wall-to-wall and like joy. I have a thousand creative projects constantly poking around my brain, and I’m desperately trying to birth them into the world, and I’m just not getting them there – so I’m getting ready. My husband is in a much better position now, and I’m ready to finish this academic year And find some space.
Janna: Which brings us, I think it’s important to know that there are seasons. I have had plenty of seasons where I’ve taught on the weekends because that’s what I had to do. And we all adjust year to year, feel like I’m in a luxurious position right now with the hours that I teach, and I do not take that for granted.
Amy: Episode number 20 featured teacher Jonathan Roberts, director of the South Shore Piano School in Boston, who is also an examiner, mentor, and U. S. representative with the Royal Conservatory of Music.
Jonathan: On a typical day, I usually try to get up early before everybody else wakes up in the house. My wife and my two kids, I try to get up before everybody else does. So I can do my morning wellness routine. So I get a little bit of yoga, and I do some breathing work, meditation, and that kind of stuff to really set the tone for the day. And then I’ll usually try to do like a good, like 60 to 90 minutes of some creative work. So, like blogging or video creation, stuff like that. So that creative Work while I’m fresh in the morning, and then once everybody else in the house is up and out and about, I get some of that much-needed family time with wife and kids for a good hour or two before I do some administrative stuff and then head off to teaching at our studio location.
And then, like most piano teachers, my main block is like that after school hours, so it’s like two to seven or three to eight. Yeah. And then I come home, unwind, just decompress from the day. And I would say that kind of sums up an average day in the life of Jonathan Roberts.
Amy: Do you have students five days a week? Are you a Monday to Friday or Monday to Saturday, or what days do you teach students?
Jonathan: So, for me right now, I’m Wednesday through Saturday. Last year, I worked six days a week, Monday through Saturday. Yeah. But between. That and doing all the administrative stuff, running a school, because I have six other teachers working with me.
So handling all of that stuff and all the things that go with running a business and the RCM stuff, it was just too much. So, I cut it down to four days this year. Granted, those are four kinds of marathon-ish days. But it’s been a welcome relief compared to six days a week.
Amy: Rebecca Maxner is a Canadian composer, piano teacher, and blogger with an international following. Her piano solos are published by the Royal Conservatory, RCM, London College, LCM, and are listed in the NFMC. National Federation of Music Clubs.
Rebekkah: The first thing I do every day, if I remember, if I’m firing on all cylinders, is I check my menu because I have a four-week menu in my house.
Amy: Wow. That’s impressive.
Rebekkah: And I have I make sure that I have the ingredients ready to go for supper. So if I haven’t pulled out my meat from the freezer the night before, which sometimes I do. I make sure it’s out that morning. I make sure I have all the ingredients for my recipe. If I need to go to the store for anything, I know that I need to, and I work that schedule into my day. And so supper is the first thing I think about.
And then I usually get sucked into my computer. I know because I have a lot on the go, and I have a lot of fun, interesting emails from people like you, like great, interesting people. And I just love connecting with people and answering their emails and organizing the events of the next few weeks that, Need to be booked for and need to know what date it is and make sure my agenda is all written right so that so that I don’t miss anything.
Amy: So logistics in the morning, right? Email and yes, looking ahead.
Rebekkah: Now, if I’m home alone, it is one of my favorite days. To have when all my lovely people go off in their directions. I will compose. It’s my favorite time to compose when I’m home alone, and I can just, I don’t worry if anyone’s heard that bad sound I just made. Cause I, I compose through improvising. I have no fear. I just try, sounds, and get through that. So that is a possibility that I love to do in the morning.
Then plan my piano teaching day. So what I will do is I have all these little gift bags that I have my student’s materials in. So, each student has their own colored pencils and erasers. And so I get the student’s bags out that I teach that day, and I have them all lined up. I get out their teaching books like I have all the books that my students learn from, so I make sure they’re all open to the right pages with sticky notes and stuff, and I just get my mind wrapped around, okay, this is what we did last time because I look and I remember what we did, and then I think this is where we might go today.
I never have hard and fast lesson plans because I find it can change on a dime if your student hasn’t practiced or has had a busy week or hasn’t been feeling well and haven’t had, they haven’t had as much practice. I try to have a general trajectory. In light of what we might do today. And then I make sure my studio’s clean.
Amy: You are totally speaking my language, Rebecca. All of the prepping food in the morning and then getting your studio tidy.
Rebekkah: Yes. Yeah. Because, it looks more professional. And if you have a vacuumed floor, then they won’t notice the floor. If your floor looks all cruddy, then you’re like, I’m in somebody’s house and they haven’t cleaned it. That’s like a different vibe to your studio, whether it’s clean or not.
Yeah, and then I’ll teach piano lessons. This year is the first year that I don’t have afternoon students at all. Nobody wanted afternoons, so I teach evenings. Isn’t that crazy? That’s never happened to me before.
Amy: So evenings like five o’clock and later, or?
Rebekkah: Yes. Okay. Yeah, I have a very small studio at this point. I only have like between 12 and 15 students in any given year.
Amy: Okay. That was my next question. So that helps.
Rebekkah: Yeah. Yes. Because I, I do so much. I earned part of my income from composing. That gives me probably. About a third of my name. Okay, that’s wonderful. Yeah, it is really nice that my name is out there and that and the feedback I get is very positive. I get lots of videos of children playing my music. Yeah. Very gratifying work.
After I teach piano lessons, quite often, that’s my favorite time of the evening. And sometimes I will compose them, too, right before bed. It settles my mind down. And your composing state, the parts of your brain that you use to compose are very similar to the parts of the brain that dream. And so when you get ready for bed, it’s a very nice time to compose because it Gets your mind ready for sleep.
Amy: Fascinating. Wow. And also maybe after coming out of teaching that you’re in that mindset too, of being around your students and
Rebekkah: Plus, deadlines are very motivating. So I have this e-sheet that I have to put out on the first day of every month.
Amy: Yes. It’s good accountability, right?
Rebekkah: It is great accountability. It is great. It’s one of my favorite projects ever.
Amy: Ashley Danew is a musician, educator, and entrepreneur. She’s the founder and editor of Musician Co., a website for self-employed musicians and entrepreneurs, writes a blog, and teaches online courses for church musicians and music educators. Hosts the podcast field notes on music, teaching and learning, and maintains a private studio in Rochester, New York.
Ashley: For me, I teach Monday through Friday, three to seven most days, so that means that my mornings are usually free to work on my other projects. So we’ll get up in the morning, and we take our dog, Rory, for a walk around the neighborhood. We come back and have breakfast, and then usually by 9:00 AM. We’re both sitting down at our desks, so Steve and I both work from home. He works upstairs, and I work downstairs in the sunroom, so I usually get Rory to come to snuggle with me, which is a perk.
So I usually will take care of emails first, and then anything that needs my attention for the day, and then I’ll go into a bigger project. So, something like researching and writing a blog post, or creating marketing content, or making website updates, or outlining a new course, or product, something I want to spend like a good couple hours on lately.
I’ve been working on two presentations for the online NCKP that’s coming in June. And then I’ve also been updating the course curriculum for our music printer model course this year. So getting ready to launch that in at the end of the summer and updating a few pages on the musician company website as well.
So those are in my big projects recently. So we’ll work on that in the morning. We usually stop around noon for lunch. Rory is very regimented on her schedule, so she expects another walk after lunch. So we usually do that. And then around 1 p. m. I’ll sit down with a cup of coffee at last. I try to forgo it in the morning if I can.
Sometimes I’ll have tea. But the afternoon is definitely coffee, and I will spend a little time planning lessons for that day. So this usually takes me between 30 to 45 minutes, depending on the day, how many students I have, which students I have. And then, if I have time, I’ll maybe get to a few more emails or wrap up whatever I was working on in the morning.
And then I exercise. I like to exercise in the afternoon right before I go teach because it gives me this. It’s extra boost of energy, I feel like, going into the afternoon.
Amy: That’s a great idea. Yeah. I’ve never heard anybody say that.
Ashley: Yeah. Because I don’t want to do it when I come home at 7:30, and we’re eating dinner and it’s late, and I’m just not a first thing-in-the-morning exercise kind of person. Yeah. 2 o’clock ish, like 1. 45, 2 o’clock is a great time for me because that’s usually when you’re hitting that afternoon slump anyway. So I’m less productive in whatever I work on.
So I’ll exercise for a half an hour, shower and change, and then go teach. And then I’m usually home by 7. 30. And Steve is often finishing up cooking at that time, so we’ll eat, clean up the kitchen, and then we’ll watch. Something, together, whatever show we’re working our way through. So right now, we’re watching The Crown on Netflix.
Amy: Oh, good choice.
Ashley: And then we’ll, usually,y read a little bit after that. So we’ve been talking about books. I usually alternate between a business book and a novel. I usually like to just read one thing at a time. So, I try to alternate my reading between something nerdy and professional, which usually does not help me go to sleep. And then a novel, which often will help me go to sleep. So right now I’m in the novel. And I’m reading something by Maeve Binchy, Chestnut, her book Chestnut Street.
Amy: Fun. Yeah. I’m very inspired by your schedule. Now, so you are, you’re pretty set since you teach at a school that all of your lesson hours, so you don’t have any morning students. So you have really good consistency in your schedule where you teach three to seven. Do you teach until seven o’clock on Fridays as well?
Ashley: I did a little bit last year in the fall and then those students have shifted some of them because of sports schedules and things, they move around a little bit. So right now, I’m teaching until five on Friday.
Amy: That’s not too bad then.
Jason Sifford is a freelance pianist, teacher, and composer with a wide range of abilities and interests. He maintains a private teaching studio in Iowa City and appears frequently on stage with local artists. He is currently a composer and clinician for the Willis Music Company, Hal Leonard, and is the composer for the Footlighters Traveling Playhouse, a children’s musical theater project of the city of Coralville, Iowa. Jason serves on the boards of the Iowa Music Teachers Association and the City Circle Theater Company and is currently on the program committee for the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy.
So what’s a day in the life of Jason look like?
Jason: Oh man, so my, it’s different every day. So anyway, I knew you were going to ask this, so I actually pulled up my Google Calendar because I live by my Google Calendar. So this week, let’s see, Monday, I woke up and I don’t have much of a morning routine. I walk the dog and I get breakfast and coffee. That’s it. And then, let’s see, I worked on that musical for a little while because the due date’s coming up. Then, I went downtown and accompanied a couple of student juries because it was jury week at the university.
Came home and then taught until the evening, on Tuesday. It was more work on the musical, more juries downtown at the university, more teaching, and then going to a friend’s recital that night. This morning, for your listeners, it’s a Wednesday right now. This morning I went and got coffee with a friend I haven’t seen in a while, and now we’re here doing this, and then I’ll come up with lunch, and this is my longest teaching day, so I’ll teach straight through from 2 to 7.
Today. Tomorrow, I’ve got to check in about some kind of webinar thing. I need to practice because I’ve got a performance at our state conference coming up of this really weird piece that I agreed to do.
Amy: Are you regretting it now?
Jason: I’m not regretting it. It’s just one of those things it’s I just, I realized that oh, this is three weeks away. I really need to have this ready to go. Gotta butter down, right? Yeah. So yeah, I’ve gotta start putting in time at the piano. Let’s see, what else? Thursday, I’ve got a counseling appointment in the afternoon. Because, mental health, everybody. Take care of yourself. I’ve got more teaching that afternoon. Friday is gloriously free, which basically means I’ll be writing all day trying to get this musical ready.
Amy: You need, as creatives, you need those large blocks of time. That is, like, the hardest part about being creative is you can’t just do creative stuff in one hour.
Jason: One of the things is, there used to be this saying going around that’s one hour of really good practice is better than four hours of mindless practice. And what I tell people, and it’s the same with creative work, it’s yes, but you don’t know when that hour is going to come. Sometimes you have to do two or three hours of bad work to get to the good hour. And yeah, so that’s going to be Friday. And then I’ll teach, Friday evening Saturday,
Amy: Friday evening.
Jason: Only till 6:30. What else am I going to do? I’m not that interesting. And then Saturday, it depends. So if it’s nice out on Saturday, I’m gonna go play golf. And if it’s raining on Saturday, then I’ll be on the couch playing Tears of the Kingdom. Because the new Zelda game just came out. And that may be a hobby of mine.
Amy: I love you have a plan B.
Jason: Or whatever else comes up, who knows. But that’s this week. And if we did this in a month Then it’d be a totally different answer, except for the teaching. The teaching always stays the same. It’s the other things that kind of rotate.
Amy: Today’s tiny tip is for those of you who, like me, have a hard time finishing a cup of coffee before it gets cold. I’m notorious for having to reheat my coffee once, if not twice before I ever finish it. I honestly think I just forget to drink. For years now, I have kept an electric candle warmer on my desk to help keep my coffee warm.
It’s like a little mini hot plate. And they slowly melt a candle, so it’ll give off its scent without having to burn it. I actually prefer to burn candles, but I love my candle warmer to keep that cuppa warm. Cuppa. Isn’t that cute? That’s a cute way of saying it. It’s how they say it in Australia slang.
Do you want a cuppa? Oh, speaking of coffee coasters, if you were at NCKP and got the Piano Pantry coffee coaster swag, do me a favor and post a picture of yours on your desk, and tag me on social media. Don’t forget, I’m on Instagram now, at Piano Pantry Amy. See you next week!
