Sep 22, 2013 | Cartoons & Drawings |
When my cat gets anxious she starts licking her fur. Apparently I start drawing shrimp. Here are this week’s shrimps …. (sorry the mustachioed shrimp is so fuzzy – I’ll deal with that later … or not) Ahhh … now I feel better. How...
Sep 19, 2013 | Events, Press Release |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sat. Sept. 28 – 7pm – Newtown, CT – Buy Tix Now I have a new show in less than two weeks — and if that sounds like it came out of the blue — it did! In the world of shows and concerts, most are booked months or...
Sep 5, 2013 | Social Media |
I can still feel overwhelmed and lost in the social media world — the same way I often feel in the real social world — but I have a very strong sense of connection to the 5000+ people who ‘like’ my official Facebook page, and I often find myself curious...
Aug 29, 2013 | People I Meet |
People talk about supporting the arts. I want to talk about a man who made his life and his business a support of musicians – a certain kind of musicians: musicians with bulky, cumbersome, delicate instruments. Like harps. … also timpani, and big...
Aug 8, 2013 | I Remember..., Kindness |
We went down the driveway to the main road to throw rocks at cars. I remember it as the day of my Grandfather’s funeral. My good buddy Stephen Holmes was visiting. We were about 4 or 5, I guess, and we’d been told to get out of the house. So we went to...
Aug 2, 2013 | Creativity, Hard Knocks, I Remember... |
She was my 5th or 6th grade project for history and social studies. I waited ‘til the night before the project was due. Not avoiding it – just obsessing over it. We were studying ancient Greece and Rome. Finally I took my mother’s Venus, the eight-inch statue...
Jul 31, 2013 | Composing, Harping & Harpists |
In the category of ‘You did WHAT????” I right? Well, it all started when I went out for a run. Actually, it all started decades ago when I was a very little girl, listening to my mother play Beethoven’s “Für Elise” – the only piece...
Jul 23, 2013 | Blues, Coaching, Teaching, Students & Learning, Creativity, Jazz Harp |
What’s that buzz about mastery? That it takes 10,000 hours to master anything? OK. Sure. I believe it. And the point of being a ‘master’ is …? I’m not dissing mastery. I’m just saying that – especially for adult learners – is it really about mastery? Or is it about...
