Thunderstorms might sound scary, but playful explanations for all those booms can help reassure little ones: How about the potato wagon’s rolling over the bridge? Or the angels are going bowling? Plus, if you just finished enjoying an audiobook, you...
Woodshedding means practicing a difficult musical passage over and over, alone or in a small section, until the notes, rhythm, and performance details are secure. Tim in Tucson, a longtime choral singer, knew it as the frustrating repetition that...
Johanna in Munising, Michigan, has a funny story about a childhood misunderstanding. Guitarists sometimes refer to their instrument as an ax. But at least as early as the 1940s, the slang term ax referred to other instruments, including trombones...

