Nov 10, 2023 | Singing and Self Blog
Vulnerability=Power (sourced on Snappa.com, Nov. 9, 2023) Singing is scary. The emotional exposure it involves requires great personal courage. Just showing up at a singing lesson can test your ability to exercise bravery. Case in point: one of my students arrived at...Nov 2, 2023 | Singing and Self Blog
Baby steps (sourced on Snappa.com November 2, 2023) We are all in such a hurry to “be there”, to have arrived. There is little patience in our crazy hamster-wheel-of-a-culture for the small increment, the piece-by-piece, the growth mindset that allows for gentle,...Oct 27, 2023 | Singing and Self Blog
They say the only way to eat an elephant (when, metaphorically speaking, you’ve got a LOT on your plate and it seems like you’ll never be able to do it all) is One Bite At A Time. One of the hardest things for my students is time management. Like all of...Oct 6, 2023 | Singing and Self Blog
The love of the thing (sourced on Snappa.com, October 5, 2023) Some reflections here in the afterglow of a powerfully authentic and inspiring visit to our campus last week by Shad, Laurier alum and rapper extraordinaire. Too often, creatives stay in their...Sep 29, 2023 | Singing and Self Blog
“Outside the opera house” (uploaded from Snappa.com, Sept. 28, 2023) There are moments these days when I feel as incongruous as this country guitarist outside an opera house–which is not an opera house as I know it–where maybe he belongs more...