Elizabeth, Jeremy and Alex drove down to Indiana to see Jeremy’s Dad and his significant other. They seem to have had a nice visit. It went a bit longer than they anticipated. I was long in bed before they got home.

I had a fun chat with Matthew yesterday afternoon while Eileen and Sarah went out shopping. We have had one discussion about chords and how they work. I told him I had one more little session in mind. He said he was too tired to do it and then asked me what it would involve. I told him that if I told him we would be doing the session.

In the first session I introduced him to the concept of major, minor, diminished and augmented triads. Matthew is writing music using chords and melodies all of it vocal. The second session I introduced him to the concept of chord inversions and that all harmony is essentially tertain (composed of thirds).

No time to blog now. People are in the house!

Stephen King: Can a Novelist Be Too Productive? – The New York Times

I do like Stephen King sometimes.

Once a Pariah, Now a Judge: The Early Transgender Journey of Phyllis Frye – 

Very early transgender experience.