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Can a musician have a personal life? I have had the great good fortune to marry a fellow musician, so when we don't see each other for weeks, at least we understand why. Renea Waligora and I were married July 29, 1989 (the day before my 30th birthday!), and our daughter Ayla Robin Dinda joined us on February 4, 2000. We live in Fitchburg, MA and enjoy our life there very much. Our family includes Kiya, our Brittany. We also have a 1904 Steinway-D piano, all nine feet of it! Together we like to garden, and we have vegetables, berry patches, a modest fruit orchard, spring and summer bulbs and perennials, and our beloved rose garden. Some of our 45 roses are antiques; hybridized before the 20th century. We also like to cook and spend a lot of time in our custom-built kitchen with its granite counters (Renea designed it; in fact, she designed the entire house). Our gardens and solarium provide us with fresh herbs through four seasons. Renea and I are fairly serious wine drinkers and often share bottles from California, Washington, and Australia, as well as classics from France. I love dessert wines and am always looking for friends who can appreciate port, madeira, and German rieslings with me. I like to read and enjoy a quiet house, except when I am playing my classic pinball machine (Bally's Mata Hari, 1977).