Earlier this year I read A Lapsed Anarchist’s Approach to Building a Great Business by Ari Weinzweig. In addition to writing about 10 books, Ari is one of the co-founders of a food business in Ann Arbor called Zingerman’s. Zingerman’s makes about $60 million annually, has served sandwiches to Oprah and President Obama, and was called … Read more
We are excited to announce that we were named to lessons.com’s list of the best guitar teachers in Grand Rapids in 2018! Here is an excerpt a letter from Paul Mazzola, founder of lessons.com: “Hey Dean, I’m excited to announce that you’ve been named Best of Lessons.com in 2018. Congratulations! We looked at dozens of … Read more
I recently wrote a song based on Romans 15:7 which was the year verse at my kids’ school this past year. You can download the song at my bandcamp page or you can listen using the play bar above. My goal was to put the verse to music to aid the kids in memorizing … Read more
I love reading and recently finished a book by John Holt called Instead of Education. One of the ideas that John talked about in the book was “reality of encounter” — basically being real with people. He was talking about reality of encounter in the context of schools — does a teacher interact with her … Read more