Life & Learning - Laura Ritchie

Rachmaninov Sonata

This is the recording of Laura Ritchie and JP Ekins performing the Rachmaninov Sonata on 7 May 2022

Ever wonder what if you could dance?

This is a story of what the professor (aka 'me') does when the students are away ... It's been a

This afternoon I was a guest speaker at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, speaking to the string

Travel Jenga and the Luggage Lag

Yesterday was a long travel day. Actually I'm not sure it still isn't yesterday - or maybe I skipped forward

Looking back gives an amazing simplicity to things. You know, hindsight - it's the concept of rear-view mirror culture McLuhan

'Yes' is hard sometimes...

I write about 'yes' a lot, I wrote a whole book about 'yes', and there's a lot of positivity in

Happiness is baked in

It's the time of year when people think, reflect, take time - to do things, be with people, and to

I woke up early (that's before 5am kind of early) to the sound of THERE'S SMOKE IN THE BEDROOM, THE

Sharing some joy

On Wednesday evenings I meet with extraordinary people for an hour and a half and a wonderful byproduct of that

Perfectly Complete

This is actually about something I thought was really not perfect and quite incomplete. Subtitle: 'my cake is not beautiful'.