My life has been ineffably enriched by the arrival of a new Michael Burke tin whistle; I wrote an account of how I use it and sent it to him.

Continue reading Use of the thumbhole, by Scott Leslie, average whistle player

There’s a whistle-player I’ve known since I started playing Trad (way back last year) who’s been playing for thirty years, a crusty old curmudgeon from Bolinas who’s so full of bombast and banter I’d always figured he was mostly bullshit. Continue reading When not to play…

Composed for West Marin Irish Music Players www. irishmusicplayers.blogspot.co

Traditional Irish music is essentially dance music. The Irish, like many peoples, have a long tradition of music and dance. Continue reading What is Traditional Irish Music?

Published in the West Marin Citizen, Halloween 2008

I’ve been driving a school bus for Shoreline Unified School District a few years now, but this isn’t my first such job: I started in a little district about the size of this one in a rural county of Northern California. Continue reading Lisa and the Halloween School Bus

Published in the Point Reyes Light circa 2005

I’ve been driving a school bus in the Point Reyes area for about five months now, and would like to relate some of my experiences—and my on-the-job education—to readers of The Light.
Continue reading Driving Schoolchildren

Here I shall post the deep, thoughtful epiphanies that routinely assault me in the course of a normal day.