The Barn Blog

  “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”   “She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”   “Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”   “I write to discover what I know.”   “I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.”   “Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about...

Nothing has ever changed my music-listening habits so thoroughly as the pandemic. Since I was a teenager in the 1970s, I have always been attracted to the newest music, always willing to dive into new genres as they developed, always ready to see a new band based on nothing more than one friend’s recommendation.Over the last 13 months, I could probably count on two hands the number of new albums I’ve listened to. I don’t think my interest in the new is gone forever. I expect that when we get back to something that looks like normal, I’ll get musically...