Category Archives: Musings

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Beautiful People, I have so appreciated your support reading this blog. You know how much I love to write! I truly love writing. But of course as you know I also LOVE to sing! And play piano! And guitar! And … Continue reading

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Surviving and Thriving: the kicker

Part 3 of 3 articles I wrote and published on Music Think Tank about thriving at music conferences. This is the turbo-charge-it summary, so if you’re short on time, read this one! http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/three-tips-to-thrive-at-the-folk-alliance-conference-part-3.html  

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How to Thrive at a Music Conference, part 2

Behold: part 2 of a 3-part series I wrote and published on Music Think Tank, about how to survive and thrive at a music conference. http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/three-tips-to-thrive-at-the-folk-alliance-conference-part-2.html

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Three Tips to Thrive at the Folk Alliance conference

These posts are in preparation for Folk Alliance International’s annual conference. FAI is the mothership to all the other -erfa’s I’ve mentioned (SERFA, NERFA, SWERFA, etc.). This is part 1 of 3, all originally published on Music Think Tank. http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/three-tips-to-thrive-at-the-folk-alliance-conference-part-1.html

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Winter

The longer excerpt is also beautiful (and surprising to me that it comes from Camus): “My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, … Continue reading

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The Timer Trick

I am fidgety. I have been all day. And not the artistically spastic happy kind: The anxious, resistant kind. My To Do list looms; I keep not checking items off. On days like this, I feel like I’ve never accomplished … Continue reading

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New directions

Beautiful blog readers, hello! Betcha thought I dropped off the edge of the earth! (Good news on that front, actually, if you’ve been in a coma since Galileo: the earth is round. So we’re safe! Well. Not from danger in … Continue reading

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Catharsis

Reason #19 to support my crowdfunding campaign: Because songs help you heal… Weep not Weep not for me I am reading by the light With a half-writ limerick in my lap Weep not for me Weep not Weep not for … Continue reading

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And a spoonful of innuendo for dessert

Reason #22 to support my crowdfunding campaign: Because you enjoy a side dish of poetry with your main course of catchy tunes. Excerpt from my song The Difference: I am no pale wounded bird I am no Jezebel, spinning through … Continue reading

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One Small Drop

Reason #23 to be part of my crowdfunding campaign: Because support you give to an independent artist ripples out into many lives. If music has ever comforted you, lifted your spirits, given shape to a feeling you couldn’t otherwise express, … Continue reading

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