http://mapmakersopera.com/Content Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:42:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just returned last night from New York where we spent three days wandering around the great city, stopping at the Metropolitan Museum of Art where we tried to convince our 8 and 10 year old boys that art really does matter (had success with the 10 year old but the ... http://mapmakersopera.com/Content/2009/03/back-from-new-york-and-the-lion-king/ I spent only two days in Barcelona on Sunday and Monday of this week just gone.  It wasn't enough time.  Other than seeing the inspiring architecture of Gaudi, my wife and I visited the Museu de la Música with its permananent collection of musical instruments from antiquity to the present ... http://mapmakersopera.com/Content/2009/01/from-barcelona-to-home/ Welcome to The Mapmaker's Opera - The Musical.  Well, finally, the site has gone live after many months of preparation.  A big thanks to Chris Stevens without whom none of this would be possible. I assume that if you are visiting here, that you have at least a passing knowledge of ... http://mapmakersopera.com/Content/2009/01/welcome-to-the-mapmakers-opera-the-musical/ If there is one thing that is truly wonderful about being a writer, it is the many people you meet because of a book you have written and to whom you would have no connection otherwise.  Our books become the "slender threads"  the Jungian writer and wise man Robert Johnson speaks of, which unite your life ... http://mapmakersopera.com/Content/2008/08/my-big-idea/