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How a Dream Led Me Back to Music
February 1, 2025 Blessings to everyone! I hope your new year is looking and feeling good so far. I have an exciting announcement. In addition to absolutely loving photography and making collage art, the first creative love in my life was/is music and I’ve again started singing, writing and producing my own music! I began…
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New Pathways Into Being
Then dropping in like a meteor, it hit me that I wanted to go back to college and pursue and MFA degree in order fully embrace and expand getting my art out into the world, and teaching at the high school or college level.
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The Stars are Aligning…& I’m on the Cover of Stepmom Magazine!
It’s been six years since I wrote my last blog. 2012 was a year of amazing events including my third wedding to my husband of almost 10 years (yes the third time is a charm!), a busy stepmom/parenting life with plenty of drama and challenges, our youngest chubby cheeked boy starting Kindergarten, and our first…
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Dog Parks: Metaphors & Life Lessons
I just returned grumpily from the dog park; I can’t say the same for my dog, he always looks pretty happy! I take Rocky to the park because he is a McNab rescue, and has loads of energy that needs to be expressed socially with other dogs (as well as on runs, hikes, and in…
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The New Courage: Consciousness & Accountability
The last ten years have been an awakening. The major challenges I would not have chosen consciously (like losing my voice), but the subconscious has ways of teaching us lessons of life. I have always been conscious and aware, generally optimistic, and take responsibility for my actions and my part in relationships and this creative…
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For the Love of Dog
It’s Easter Sunday; what to do on this kidless weekend? No Easter baskets, colored Easter eggs, or plastic eggs with money in them. No Easter egg hunts, Easter Bunny, or JellyBelly beans. No giant chocolate bunny, Cadbury eggs, peanut butter and chocolate eggs, or malted milk eggs. No church. That’s okay, I have my own…
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On Pink Unicorns & Skeptics
When the title above came to me, I had no clue that the term, “pink unicorn” actually has a following called the “invisible pink unicorn,” (with many skeptics, of course!). Whoa, my Dog, it’s amazing all the information available on this topic! But this was not the reason I wrote this blog. I was merely writing…
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Who Do You Love
On this rainy Monday, Valentine’s Day, I sit pondering Love. Romantic love, self-love, and unconditional Love. I definitely have the first love down–romantic love; in fact, I’ve been very fortunate to attract romantic relationships in my life fairly easily. Not to say I haven’t kissed many frogs (actually some were more like crocodiles) but the…
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The Wonder of Wonders
No, I’m not talking about the 7 wonders of the world. Are there really only 7?I don’t think so. However, for fun, here’s a photo of the Grand Canyon, my absolute favorite natural wonder of the world and where I’ve had mystical experiences. What I’m referring to here is how we “wonder” or use our…
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The Upside of (Elective!) Surgery
Why am I smiling in a hospital room with a hospital gown on? Because, I’m getting ready here to do something really great for myself, for my singing health, and immune system….prepping for a tonsillectomy surgery (now who thought this was plastic surgery)! <div class=” image-block-outer-wrapper layout-caption-below design-layout-inline ” data-test=”image-block-inline-outer-wrapper” > <figure class=” sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic…