Are you stressed? Worried? Burnt out? Then I have a simple suggestion: pick up an instrument. Why? Well, because I believe learning guitar is the best thing you can do to soothe your gnashing brain.

This isn’t so much a column, I suppose, as it is a meditation. It’s the kind of column -- er, meditation –--that I write when I’ve been spending the week on Cape Cod, alone with my daughter, strolling ...

Apr 25, 2016 Apr 25, 2016 Updated Jan 18, 2021 Standing inside his home garage-turned-workshop, Santa Maria High School English teacher Chris Kohler jumps back and forth between explaining what types ...

"When the first notes of [the music] threaded their way into my consciousness, they seemed to come from inside me…music wound its way through me as sound turned pure sensation." —The New York Times on ...