Susan,

I have not been very active in Mudcat lately, but generally, I try to respond questions that relate to music theory, arrangement, and composition(which folk and pop musicians tend to call just "writing"), and also about performance, techique, style, and repertoire related to the different types of folk music that I have worked with.

My main work these days is in working on preparing a number of music projects (none of which are anywhere near ready for public consumption), and I no longer either teach or perform.

When I answer questions, I am as meticulous as possible, meaning that I regularly look things up, I play things that people post, occasional notate things, occasionally write my own arrangements of songs to find an answer to a question--and of course, I try to find a clear and accurate explanation for any question I am responding to--

I sometimes get a bit irritated with people, particularly when they think that they know more than they do, and they won't back off, or with people who want the credit without doing the work-Mostly, I am on the side of the person who is just trying to figure things out, because I have been there--