Blog Posts
Browse by category →- 5/12/2014A short Sunday hike in Frick Park
- 5/10/2014What does it mean that I've never liked the "Mona Lisa" painting?
- 5/8/2014The Chess Improver: Try loving your Knights more than your Bishops
- 5/8/2014Tchaikovsky's 174th birthday: I'm finally coming out as a lover of his music
- 5/4/2014Our first hike at Coopers Rock State Forest
- 5/1/2014The Chess Improver: Black takes control of the dark squares by grabbing the Bishop pair
- 4/27/2014Pittsburgh Recorder Society: Palestrina, Gombert, and Dolly Parton cookies
- 4/24/2014The Chess Improver: Is it OK to play a losing move in order to win?
- 4/20/2014My progress so far on my cookie quota system
- 4/18/2014The perfect music for Good Friday: some favorite interpretations of Bach's "Erbarme dich" from the St. Matthew Passion
- 4/18/2014Thoughts on never having read anything written by Gabriel García Márquez
- 4/18/2014RIP Cheo Feliciano: wonderful singer of salsa and bolero
- 4/17/2014The Chess Improver: Ten reasons my winning game turned into a loss
- 4/17/2014Charlie Chaplin, a daughter, a granddaughter: changing my perception of "Smile"
- 4/14/2014A note on running in warm weather