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A post from June 2016 showed up on my Facebook account today when I did a search for something seemingly unrelated. But it struck me as something worth resharing all these years later, and just as relevant IMO. What follows is what I posted in June 2016: “In the event you’re inclined to think the TSA…
When I was a child and young adult, I heard many variations of my last name, Newcomb. You can see that the name contains the word “nuke”; not in the spelling but in the pronunciation. People used to poke fun of my name for that very reason. If something got “nuked” in the microwave, all…
Today’s email is me shamelessly gushing over my wife, Sana. If you’ve followed this email newsletter for any length of time, you know that Sana recently arrived in the US after a very long time processing her visa. 3 months after her arrival, she got the hankering to get out of the house and find…
When Tony Prisk, second trumpet with the Philadelphia Orchestra, told me about some of his colleague’s attitude about their day job (in the most recent installment of the Trumpet Dynamics podcast, which you can access here ) I thought he was joking. How could a person devote their entire life from childhood to excelling at a craft,…
Interesting story for you. In May 2021, my wife Sana and I were riding in a taxi from our apartment to a mall in Hanoi, Vietnam for a relaxing Saturday lunch and stroll through the mall. I had been active playing trumpet for pretty much my entire life, yet the trajectory of my professional career…