Last Week: Changing things in my life and hoping to inspire,support and guide you in your changes. I’m starting with a new commitment to mental and physical wellness. Last Week: Making changes in my life, starting with a new commitment to mental and physical wellness. Day one and day Two: I am a super hero. …
Photo courtesy of leosia niezgodka Practicing. I’m practicing right now. So are you. What are you practicing? I’m practicing singing. A skill I need as I’m working on learning three new roles for the fall and spring opera season I’m engaged for. My daughter is practicing the flute for school band. My son practices football…
photo courtesy laffy4K at Flicker.com Did you know that the day after Labor Day is the beginning of more resolutions than New Years Day? It’s true. Maybe it comes from our long years of going to school and the ingraining of this one day of the year being the key to a clean slate. A…
photo courtesy of busy brain I have always found the reaction to summer heat waves, both here in my current home in Victoria BC and also in my Toronto years now past, to be amazingly stupid. Why? Because we pretend it isn’t happening. When it was record breaking hot here last month, everyone carried on…
Flickr: photo courtesy of Tiny White Lights I have done it. I have went further then I have ever went before. I never make it past week five and Here I am at week seven. Unbelievable. Today I want to talk about journaling. The piece of the Artists’ Way that never changes week to week,…
katerina 2353 The care and Feeding of the Bearded Dragon Not exactly what I thought I’d be typing into Word but life with kids is full of surprises. My daughter has been working her way through the animal kingdom for years now, the obligatory fish, then the dwarf hamster because small is cute you know…
What fires have you walked through? What ashes have you arisen from? Elizabeth Lesser “Broken Open” Sometimes in moving forward in our lives, we feel we must first deal with the past. I keep running into people who are dogged by the question “Why”. Why did this happen? I love how we as humans think…
“I think the key is that some people go into looking at it like it is a competition….if you go into it with the perspective that this is a platform, this is an opportunity and I’m going to use this to my advantage and you go in focusing on performing your best and competing with…
Amneris Complex or in colloquial terms “Waiting for the other singers to die so I’m the only one left to hire” Often as a professional singer, I hear my colleagues of a younger age discuss how competitive the field is. And it isn’t just in the operatic field, as I teach at a college for…
