Happy Mother’s Day!

Happy Mother’s Day to my loving, generous, adventurous mom! Mom – had you been in town today I would have invited you to come to our church this morning. I sang this little piece I think you would like (click the link to listen).  Thank you for all...
How yoga made me a better musician: part 2

How yoga made me a better musician: part 2

  When I wrote my last post about music and yoga, it was really the “intangibles” that I was thinking about.  Letting go of judgment, freeing from expectations, acceptance of where I am, right now, today.  But of course yoga is a physical as well as a...

Hey wow, turns out every opera singer is sick RIGHT NOW.

Overheard in an audition waiting room today: “UGH, my voice is so SCRATCHY today.” “It’s really going around, half the cast of the show I’m doing right now is sick.” “I can NOT sing before noon, my sinuses are so junky!”...

The science of singing with CF

A lot of the time when people find out I have CF, they’re pretty surprised since they know me first as a singer.  I think that’s a good thing, because it means that as much as my CF has challenged me, it also isn’t immediately apparent to the...

3 Ways to Stay Sane

With my husband’s line of duty injury, the past couple of months have been a flurry of activity interspersed with stretches of sheer, crushing boredom. Evidently, I have several different coping mechanisms for dealing with stress, and each of them has their...