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5 Lessons for my Graduate Students

August 28, 2018
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ICMPC (the International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition meeting I attended in July) is most succinctly described as a music science conference. Although various fields are represented, including music psychology, music cognition, music theory, music therapy, and more, at its core it’s a science conference. And I find it fascinating to note the differences […]

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Why I Blog

February 25, 2016
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This month my podcast co-hosts and I posted our 75th podcast episode. We happened to do so during the month of our launch—and it’s been six years! Happy 6-year anniversary to the Music Therapy Round Table podcast! February is also an anniversary for the Maven blog, which I started exactly one year prior to the […]

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Feeling Stagnant

July 9, 2014
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I’ve been struggling to come up with topic ideas for this blog. It’s not a new struggle—this kind of stagnation has happened periodically in my 5+ years of blogging. You may even call it writer’s block. My initial reaction to this feeling is always one of alarm. After all, I take a developmental approach and […]

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Word Pair Confusions…Clarified?

August 30, 2012
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I vividly remember the first time I stared at a word, trying to figure out whether I had, in fact, spelled it correctly. It was high school and the word was… …”what.” That’s right. “What.” For whatever reason, I was looking at “what” and it looked wrong. I could not figure out what was happening […]

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Book Review: How to Write a Lot

June 21, 2012
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I’ve been on a bit of a reading kick lately. In truth, most of it is for various research projects for my doctorate degree, but I’ve managed to squeeze in more “fun” reading on the side. One such “fun” reading book is Dr. Paul Silva’s How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive […]

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