Today is the birthday of the man who is my first memory of singing along to a song and knowing who the artist was: the legendary Willie Nelson. What is the song you ask? Georgia on my Mind. I was just over two years old at the time. Mama was a fan of Willie’s music
Tag: Music
Creativity is essential for every writer, blogger, content creator, musical artist, or artist. I want to share with you all how I keep my creativity front and center. Writing two blog posts a week and creating seven videos a week for this blog’s Instagram requires my creativity is constantly flowing. To be honest, when I
Growing up mama and I listened to music constantly. Listening to music and singing along is still something we love to do together. We always will. We listened to the radio, often, in both vehicles and at home. One day as a kid a song came on that sounded like nothing I had heard before
I have been feeling uninspired lately. That is hard for me to admit. Inspiration is so important for the work I do now that being honest about feeling uninspired feels a little uncomfortable to say the least. Being honest is also important in the work I do so I just I’m going to be honest.
In early 2008, I was in the mall and decided to go in the music store. Once in the door I heard a voice I wanted to know more about immediately. An album was playing over the speaker, and I loved the voice. I asked the employee at the counter if he knew who was
If you’ve been following for a while, you know that the last six weeks or so has been hard in my family. While things are looking up, we’ve still got some hard stuff to walk through. Music always helps me process my feelings and work through them. I have been listening to an awful lot
A couple of days ago, I asked my Twitter followers to help me decide what to write on next. This blog post is the winner of that poll: a review of the movie version of In The Heights. Before getting into how much I loved the movie, I will say I am aware of the
I’ve always tried to do my best to thrive with my condition…even before I knew that’s what I was doing. I have never wanted my condition to slow me down. I want to go full steam all the time. Being there the best way I know how for everybody who matters to me is important.
If you’ve been following this blog for a while: you know how important music is to me. I’ve written posts about Sarah McLachlan, Billy Joel, and Garth Brooks. Today’s post is another one about music that’s important to me. This one is about the Backstreet Boys. I wasn’t a typical teenage girl by most standards.
I got a comment a few weeks ago: “Nobody with CP is that happy all the time.” I didn’t engage with the negativity and they left my blog’s social media profile they were following. I admit, after that, I internalized their negativity a bit. Now, I want to turn it into something productive. Let’s talk