After 40 years as a professional writer - reporter for Associated Press, marketing writer and technical writer - I retired. I now teach violin to children of refugees, and write for my own pleasure. Mostly I write music, or about music: I have written a methods book for teaching violin in classes, and have published many arrangements of popular Israeli and American songs. My first novel was The Language of the Heart, about Ziryab, the leading musician of the Golden Age of Islam in the ninth century. https://www.amazon.com/Language-Heart-musical-fantastical-journey/dp/1070100900