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My First Love Song
I wrote my first love song when I was 13 or 14. It wasn’t my first song – which was from my musical “When Nights were Bold, ” when I was 12. But this song was different. It was personal. I was in love with Freddie Stewart. I followed him...
You MUST send Valentines
You must send Valentines. I’ll tell you why below, but first I have to admit I always disliked Valentines Day. And then last 2020 – 5 years into a single life I hadn’t planned on – I gave it up. Instead of hating Valentines Day, I challenged myself to send Video...
Love Stories from the Harp – For Valentine’s Day
Every year around Valentine’s Day I like to look back at all the love stories past. So I decided to make this composite blog so I can find them and share them more easily! It’s a whole lot of romance all on one page. Enjoy! “20 Seconds of...
30 Days of Love Songs
30 Days of Love Songs – YouTube Playlist Re-Release: – In 2021, I went on a mission to learn about emotional vulnerability by challenging myself to share a new Love Song every night LIVE on Facebook Live for 30 days. One Project, TWO Playlists Now I want...
This is the gift
Yesterday, on the bike path, pedaling home from a stint at the Kickstand Cafe with my computer, there was a small group ahead of me on the path in sunlight that looked almost dusty: A mother – or grandmother – and a child. Like it would have been when I...
Making Peter’s Valentine
I started working on it weeks ago, a limited-edition Jazz-Harp Release that started as a personal Jazz Valentine for Peter. I chose the tunes and practiced them. Then I started recording them every morning, putting them on my iPod and listening to them on my daily...
Jazz Valentine Project
I have a very special friend, Peter, and I like to make him a very special Valentine every year. Peter is a long-time collaborator whose vision & support led to my Grammy Nominated project “Invention & Alchemy.” If you’ve been to one of my...
And then he kissed me …
NOTE: This blog includes an audio file related to the story – if you want to listen while you’re reading, here’s the song: And Then He Kissed Me by Deborah Henson-Conant https://hipharp.com/cv/audio//th/kissed_me_grp.mp3 When I was 13, living in...
