"Migraines Are What Happens When You're Making Other Plans"

No doubt you've seen this clever axiom, credited to John Lennon...

For the past several years, my experience has been that...

"Migraines are what happens when you're making other plans!"

For instance, I planned a week-long trip recently to a town three hours away

Never Give Up

This stuffed turtle reclines on the top of my piano where each music student can see the words "NEVER GIVE UP" in bold print across its exposed underbelly.

But what if our environment and resources prevent us from experiencing some

Choices That Change: Define Wholeness

Four Domains/One Whole
1. Physical
2. Psychological (Thoughts/Feelings/Behaviors)
3. Social
4. Spiritual

When you think about holistic, or wholistic (I guess there's some difference in meaning according to the different spellings), what comes to mind? For me, it conjures up the image of a low-budget office, manned by a single New-age naturopath smelling of herbs and supplements. Like me, you may have been in a few.

Slow Start

I'm inspired. On one of my favorite blogs, Encouraging Words for Writers, Bonita assures her readers that their writing, like a fingerprint, is supposed to be unique, unlike anyone else's; that there isn't one right way to speak. Now that's a piece of work for one whose default behavior is compliance!

Has Your Internal Engineer Muted Your Voice?

(Note: This was drafted in June so the reference to Christmas was originally a reference to my last birthday--which only emphasizes the point!)

Do you remember hearing your own voice recorded for the first time? Almost everybody responds the same: “Do I really sound like that?”

My first "gig" as a vocalist was at age six, soloing “Sunbeam” in a Sunday morning church service. That was followed closely by an appearance in my mother’s Christmas production