Baby of a New Year ~ What 2018 Has Taught Me
When I saw this picture of my great niece, I knew I found the image for my New Years blog. Using a baby as a symbol for a new year began in 600 B.C with the Greeks. A baby represents…
What a Woman Will Do – A Song
What a woman will do ... to grow, to sustain strength, to foster independence and shedding light ... Inspired by a desire to weave the emotional threads of a personal journey with that of so many women who resonate with…
Joy – A Poem
joy can be elusive hiding behind a forest or thoughts, or mindsets encrusted with the familiar it peeks through like sunlight through tree limbs, leaves, crackling branches on a windy day downpours can drown out its expression yet it is…
New beginnings
I am moved to greet this season with hopefully post-worthy thoughts and inspirations. I was so taken by this mezuzah I found, that I switched out my original to another doorpost. The tradition of marking the entrances of home with…
Eulogy for Abraham
Blogging as a public journal is a way to help process many things and grief is no exception. Whenever Abraham ventured out for feline adventures, my heart would grip in fear of losing him. Now my fears have been faced…
A “Love of Learning” Angel
This week my daughter's thesis was officially published, as first author in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://rdcu.be/2rNp. It's a huge achievement, a culmination of the most ardent efforts and eschewing of typical lifestyle I have ever seen or…
New song released in time for CMV Awareness Month and CDC’s weekly disease
As a songwriter, I was inspired to capture the voice of my friend Lisa Saunders whose experience impacted her to such an extent that sharing it became a natural part of her evolution and becoming. Instead of allowing it to…
Some singing this spring ….
For those who have been asking where and when I'll be singing, I've got some updates. As the dust settles from my move I've been dusting off my songs and decided to showcase some of the work I've done to…
Memorializing Earth Day
April 22, 2007 the day My Dad returned to the Earth he loved and revered for all its mysterious ways, the ways he learned to build and create and connect in the largest ways possible ... remembering him with love…
Something to Sing About
Inspiration is such an amazing phenomenon. Thinking back to when I first met my friend Lisa, it’s hard to imagine her not having brought her story of CMV into the conversation. It’s not so much that it defines her, as…