Today I repost my reflections on the time I spent in 2010 with high school students at one of the best creative arts camps out there, along with a note written by one of our students. This is where you’ll find me every late July and where I am personally encouraged and challenged by an [...]
*Friends! Thanks for spreading the word about this little retreat. We SOLD OUT in 4 DAYS! Wow. Please add your name to the waiting list if you missed it (you never know) – and stay tuned. We are working on the possibility of adding another date for this retreat in the next few months. Maybe [...]
(Photographs in this post were a gift from my young reader/listener/writer friend Abby Ang. Enjoy Abby’s words here.) *Adding here to my original post, based on an interaction with a lovely young lady I hope to one day meet. She wrote: At each stage of this journey, it seems the more productive I am…the more [...]
It wasn’t entirely selfless. Obviously, I enjoy food, friends, music-making and a great speaker as much as the next girl. Nicole and I had been talking for a while about how amazing it would be to invite a bunch of chicas to get together for some sort of retreat, create our own event, including–but not [...]
On Monday I turned 37. (That’s me, second from the right, the day Mandy came home.) This is nearly impossible to fathom, because wasn’t it last week I was celebrating my 12th birthday in Kaiserslautern, Germany? Weren’t we riding the train, my aunt and grandmother and two girlfriends and I, trying on new clothes in [...]
I want to tell you about Masterpiece Project 2010. Our theme this year was “Frame the Clouds,” and you’ll just have to believe me when I say I did not have anything to do with that. But I was humbled, so grateful that the concept resonates with others. The staff at Masterpiece are not all [...]
It’s obvious she has the bug. She is 6 and can’t keep from it. Small brown fingers push the sound from the ivory and I watch her do what I do. Play. Evaluate. Try a new way. Repeat. Build a pattern, wonder where it must go next. She is emotive. Sometimes loud. Often tragic (her [...]
(This was originally a “page” on my former blog…since I don’t yet have a place for it in this new blog format, I thought I’d share it again as a “post.”) I’m sure I have it documented somewhere, maybe on a piece of notebook paper, but I can’t recall it. I do know it was [...]
“You don’t HAVE to do anything, but you CAN do a lot of things.” She was 16-years-old and said it with a comical grin, referring to my dilemma over whether or not to feel obligated to patch a small hole in my skirt. She’s a free spirit. I have never been as free as I [...]
My favorites are 6-year-old skirts from TJ Maxx, one of which has a gaping hole in the top layer, soft t-shirts, and a dress from Old Navy whose elastic is stretched to the point of irrelevance. I’d wear them every day if I could get away with it. (I nearly do.) The idea is to [...]
