Exploration #3 ~ Connecting to our Impulse (Strings of Passion)
This is an archive post ~ originally published Jan. 6, 2017 and updated in 2019 “The strings of passion – these seven principles – they’re not steps, they’re strings like the strings of our instrument. And there are seven, just like there... read more
Exploration #2 ~ Obstacle and Impulse (Strings of Passion)
This is an archive post ~ originally published in 2017 and updated Jan. 17, 2019 “Sometimes we lose the creative impulse because there are obstacles in our way. But it’s always there. It’s always there.” The quote above is from the following... read more
Exploration #1 ~ Where is the ‘Self’ in ‘Self-Expression’? (Strings of Passion)
This is an archive “Strings of Passion” post ~ originally published Jan. 1, 2017 and updated in 2019 I love to work with impassioned people. I love to learn from impassioned people,I love to talk to impassioned people,I love to play with impassioned... read more
Blues Lets You Tell Your Story with Music
This is an archive post ~ originally published Jan. 13, 2016 and updated in 2018 A few years back at a show in the Boston area, I launched into an impromptu story of my life and how I started playing the harp – all while playing the harp. Afterwards, the theater owner... read more
Speak Your Musical Mind … BLUES on Harp
This is an archive post ~ originally published Jan. 3, 2016 and updated in 2018 Would you read every word from a script if you were pouring your heart out to your best friend? No? Then why read every single note when you’re trying to express yourself on the harp? As a... read more
What if you took a class where you discovered …
What if … What if you took a class where you discovered you could just sit down and improvise your own arrangements? Boom! Just like that! What if it was like one of those dreams where you realize you can suddenly do something you always longed to do – and the... read more
Final BEGINNING Projects for Blues HarpStyle
At the end of my online course for harpists, “Blues HarpStyle” I invite everyone in the course to share a Final “Beginning” project – their own Blues on harp. In 2015, 21 of the 50 people in the course created Blues videos to complete the... read more
A Message from the Jamlog Collectomatic
My new 10-Week creativity program “Strings of Passion” opened on Tuesday and I got this message yesterday via the “Jamlog Collectomatic,” an anonymous sharing form I created that lets people share what’s happening with them without... read more
What’s a Jamlog Collecto-matic? (from “Strings of Passion”)
My new 10-Week creativity program “Strings of Passion” opened on Tuesday. The responses from people already in the program are starting to come in … Are YOU in? >> Register Now at StringsofPassion.com << Deadline to Register: Midnight Tue. Jan. 17... read more
