Mind Over Matter

It’s All in Your Head (sourced on Snappa.com, Nov. 2025) Two incidents this week formed the theme for this post: my daughter’s 30th birthday project to run 30 km (shout-out Alice: she did it!) and the struggle and work of my students preparing for this...

Full Circle, Part 3

Circle of 3 (sourced on Snappa.com, October 2025) This year is full of these Ouroboros (see last week!) moments of returning to what was before, reliving it, grieving its passing, celebrating its regeneration anew. I was struck by this image of 3 women in front of a...

Ouroboros

Ouroboros (sourced on Snappa.com October 2025) Don’t you just love it when you learn something new? Recently our Masters students had the opportunity to work together with Zorana Sadiq (I’m a big fan, so it was partly selfish to invite her into my...

Taking up space

Occupying space (sourced on Snappa.com, Sept. 2025) Occupying space is a big theme in singing. It’s interesting how, as vocalists, even though we are performing artists to greater or lesser degrees, we seem to shy away from taking up and using the space that is...

This is me

This is me (September, 2025) This is me. In my final year of teaching at Laurier. Waking up, writing in my journal, prepping one class at a time, leaning into the work I love. This is me, trying not to be too fussed about the outcome, and being present to what is,...