( Cut for discussion of physical health (triggery for some?) and minor horn tooting... )

It's time for a system upgrade.

I've been really happy with Pantsie 2.0, the version that transformed Pantsie 1.0 from HR professional and musical weekend warrior to a full-time professional singer, a part-time HR consultant, and a fledgling voice teacher.  2.0's interface is much more consistent with the designer's intent and all of her ( Read more... )

Recently, I've been exploring the idea of house versus home, what makes me feel like my home is complete or makes me feel at home when I'm at home.  For years, I've struggled between fighting clutter and a feeling need for abundance in my space.  I never like to feel like I'm running out of the things I use regularly.  However, if all my surface ( Read more... )

This is a question I've been asking myself frequently these days.  Instead of pushing myself to be all these things at once, what if I approached the world by letting myself be pulled toward the things that compel me?  It's not about being the opera singer I should be; it's about being the artist I'm called to be.

( A long list, mostly for my purposes... )

Sweetie-pie ( Read more... )

I wanted to invite you all to the first event of "Fisher Price: My First Working Opera Singer's Summer 2012":

Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas"
Franklin Opera House
316 Central Street
Franklin, NH

Saturday, July 21 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, July 22 at 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: Adults $18 - Children/Seniors $16
http://www.franklinoperahouse.org/
603-934-1901

I will be ( Read more... )

After a tough couple of weeks, it's time to get back to basics. I now have tendinitis in my left wrist, so Quote of the Day went out the window. I'm just thanking my lucky stars that I'm not a professional writer or pianist. No recreational typing, texting, or piano playing. Then I lost one of my church jobs due to budget cuts. Not the end of ( Read more... )

"Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities."
C. S. Lewis

"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."
Oscar Wilde

Under the wire...

“Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static.”
Oleg Cassini