A story worth telling 

This happened a few years ago...but I'd never written the story.  Thought it was time.  

Here's to more serendipity...

 

My grandmother used to say that I lived a charmed life.  I don’t agree.  I do believe that I live life with my eyes and ears wide open, and when you live that way, you see, hear and take the possibilities presented that the average joe often misses.  One of my favorite stories to illustrate this started on a layover at LAX: 

 

I was on my way to Seattle with my (then) husband and two…

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On Singing The Song That Only You Can Sing 

i originally posted this on a private facebook page for folks that attended Patti Digh's DESIGN YOUR LIFE CAMP.  

But i thought that maybe some of you would like to read it as well...

 


when i was 37 years old, a therapist told me that if i didn't find something outside my crappy marriage that made me happy, i was going to die. not spiritually die. or emotionally, but physically keel over one day, and she told me she was afraid it was going to be soon. 

i was so stunned by her words that i knew i needed to…

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On Sight Reading, Girl Scouts and Demons 

I have a love-hate relationship with the piano.  My earliest memories of the piano were watching my paternal grandmother play circus songs on an old beat up upright while my sister and I tore all the cushions off her sofa and lined them up in a row to tumble on while she played.  I used to love to sit at that same piano and plunk out songs that I learned to play note by note by ear.  When my parents and grandparents discovered that I had an affinity for music, the lessons began.  

I'm sure I was every…

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Hearts & Skin & Annie Lennox 

So today I feel like blogging.  I used to blog.  But it's been a while.  When you spend as much time online AND writing songs as I do, you sometimes feel as though you've already said it all.  But I realized today, that I've had a lot stewing under the surface for a while, and some observations about it are coming in clearer.  So here goes.  


I am a sensitive soul.  My family would go so far as to say that I'm ULTRA sensitive or OVERLY sensitive.  It's what sent me to therapy over twenty years ago.  I…

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WELCOME TO MY WEBSITE!! 

I hope you're enjoying cruising around my new website!  I've had so much fun working on it for you!  I plan to use the "blog" section to share news, wax poetic and post things that don't fit anywhere else.  So check back often!  If you happen to be attending the Folk Alliance conference in Toronto next week, I'd love if you stopped by one of my showcases.   

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