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Last year I went to the NATS Chicago conference and bemoaned the fact that I had taken an unintentional hiatus from performing for nearly 10 years. Specifically, I posted on Facebook: Something that makes me a little sad is that, although my voice is still working just FINE, thankyouverymuch, I missed out on performance opportunitiesContinue reading “The nobility of PERFORMING”

I am having the best summer. The weather is perfect, I’m teaching at home, I closed a show in May (Little Women, as both Marmee and director, debut for both), wrote and put on a cabaret show in less than 4 weeks after that, and am getting into the best physical shape I’ve been inContinue reading “Some reflections ( a year late) on NATS 2016”

When I left Milwaukee 4 years ago, I got rid of a lot of stuff that I didn’t feel I needed to take with me. I had thought I’d gotten rid of a lot of stuff the year before, when we started our major remodeling project for what we thought was going to be our “forever”Continue reading “Decluttering My Space and My Time”

It’s more likely why don’t I write these days….. When I was a little girl, I wrote all the time. Usually stories about people escaping from occupied countries in Europe. Sometimes I wrote song parodies, sitcom parodies, and I really loved writing book reports, reading and analyzing things and expressing my response to them. And thenContinue reading “Why I Write…. Or Not”

This past Friday night, I performed my first solo cabaret since moving here in 2013. I have done three joint cabaret shows: LoveSICK, with Dyana Neal, Steven Lampredi and Jim Knost, for Valentine’s Day 2016 and 2017, and an end of summer show in August 2014, but this was my first solo outing. In 2006,Continue reading “What good is sitting alone in your room? Go do a cabaret!”

When a pianist gets a cold, they can still play (although I did witness a young woman’s nose drip onto the keys during her senior recital). When a violinist gets a cough, he can still play. When a percussionist – or a brass player, or a woodwind player – gets a sore throat, he canContinue reading “Why being a singer can suck”

My husband’s piano teacher at Towson University passed away last night. I only met Reynaldo Reyes a handful of times – a few years ago when we came to visit Baltimore and stopped in at his office and Bill introduced me to him, 2 years ago at a recital given by his piano trio, andContinue reading “RIP, Reynaldo Reyes”

This weekend, I was part of a cabaret performance entitled LoveSICK at An Die Musik on Charles Street in Baltimore. The theme of the show was dysfunctional love songs – whether the songs were inherently dysfunctional or we just performed them with a twist (and believe me, some of them were quite twisted) – andContinue reading “What cabaret means to me”

I vowed to blog on the 1st and 15th of every month, and today’s the 15th, so here goes…. I purchased a bunch of books over the last two years that I have simply had no time to read. So before I buy any more, I’m going to read them. And since school doesn’t startContinue reading “Reading goals for 2016”

I keep saying I’m not making any resolutions this year, that I’m going to have a central theme of organization that will govern the year (with a secondary theme of marketing myself as a singer and a teacher), but there are a few things that I’d like to do this year. First of all, IContinue reading “New Year, New Plans”