It has been a hot summer and we don’t have air conditioning, so we open our windows as wide as possible at night to catch a cool breeze if we can. The first sound I hear early in the morning is the sh-sh-sh of the sprinklers coming to life in

  What must it be like not to be able to hear any sounds, to be deaf? You can still make sounds with your speech apparatus, but you can’t hear yourself. This piece is a homage to Alexander Melville Bell’s phonetic alphabet that he devised in 1867 to help deaf

Cacophony – defined as a harsh discordant mixture of sounds.   Synonyms: din, racket, noise, discord, dissonance, discordance, caterwauling, raucousness, screeching, jarring, stridency, grating, rasping.   How do words sound? How do they make you feel? Do we each respond to individual words in the same way?   For me

Melange   I dearly LOVE music.  I was in the choir in high school and enjoyed it very much.   In college, I spent time with guitar players, and even bought my own guitar in Barcelona, Spain, and tried to learn to play.  My husband also enjoys music, and has introduced