Songbird Piano Lessons

 Hello, all,    Two quick updates, both of which are very important but also very boring: Thank you to those who have subscribed by email to my blog as I've blogged! I know that you're mostly (all?) my family and friends, and I appreciate your support! You might have gotten an email from Google about FeedBurner going away. I'm no techie, and I'm not sure what all the implications are, but the way I understand it, you might not receive any more blog posts directly in your inbox after July. Which might not matter anyways. I'm thinking of switching to WordPress in the fall. Everyone says it's better. Who am I to argue with the experts? (If you're a WordPress user and have a comment or thought on switching, please... you know.) If I don't switch, I'm sure Blogger will create a different widget, so you'll have to go through the process again if you want to stay subscribed. At any rate, you won't be missing much over the summer. I know I haven'...

  Hi, all,    I'll get to the point. I've got this promotional video that I think you should see. The discount offered on it expires on June 30, 2021, so please, if you've been thinking about piano lessons, check this out.     Or pass it on to someone you think might be interested.  For more information on online lessons,  click here.  Or if you just happen to live in my area and want in-person lessons,  click here instead.

"There's no great loss without some small gain." I'm not sure who said it, but I first read this quote in a Little House on the Prairie book. Looking back over the last nine months, I can say that what I've gained is at least equal to what I lost.     I will be honest: my first half of the school year, I focused on what I'd lost (most of last year's students). Though I knew that COVID-19 was to blame, and that other teachers were undoubtedly going through the same, I still felt like a failure. That was in spite of the fact that, when one of my students did not finish an assignment on time, I told her something along the lines of not having failed as long as we learn from our mistakes. (How is it that we can tell everyone but ourselves the truth?)     But now I can focus on what I've gained. Let me share with you some of the new things this school year brought that proved to be gains: My first preschool student! This is a niche I've wanted to tap in...