The community college choir that I love singing in went virtual this Fall. The experience of recording myself singing, listening and watching that recording, and then submitting it for others to watch and listen to pretty much pushes all my “I’m not good enough” buttons. And I knew it would.[…]

Is This What I Sound Like?

Last fall I set foot in my first elementary school classroom in over 30 years.  I became a volunteer with Pacific Symphony’s elementary school partnership program, Class Act.  The symphony’s core purpose is to “enrich the human spirit through world-class symphonic music and community engagement”.  They accomplish this through a[…]

Percussion Quartet

My husband and I traveled to Europe for the very first time in 1998.  It was the first time either of us had left the North American continent and the first of many big adventures in our 31 years of marriage.  A travel agent helped us assemble an itinerary because[…]

Twenty Years Later

June 4:  I’m grateful for the singing and dancing I did this morning with my girlfriends — Good Morning Starshine, Proud Mary, Janis Joplin, the Black-Eyed Peas, Groove is in the Heart, and so much more.  More of my mornings need to be started this way.

Good Morning Starshine