Growing People, Musicians, and Cauliflower
Weeks ago I was in a meeting with several dozen women. Before we got down to business the woman conducting the meeting asked us if anyone had anything to share for our good news minute. Silence....
View ArticleA Bit of Happy #30: I’m a Princess
I have a goal to write 30 posts about things that make me smile before Thanksgiving. Counting my way down to completion is usually more helpful to me in tracking and motivating my progress than...
View ArticleA Bit of Happy #29: Van Heflin Does Shakespeare
One of my favorite parts in Presenting Lily Mars is when Van Heflin teaches Judy Garland how to play Lady Macbeth. In three minutes you can see how understanding the why can make an immediate...
View ArticleA Bit of Happy #25: Here Comes the Groom
This clip from Here Comes the Groom shows Jane Wyman and Bing Crosby at their most charming. Hoagy Carmichael’s song “In the Cool, Cool, Cool, of the Evening” is a silly bit of fun and the series of...
View ArticleA Bit of Happy #24: Steven Sharp Nelson and the Cello
I love the cello and I love musicians who are a nice, down to earth people. That makes Steven Sharp Nelson a double-win for me. I saw his Bach video around the time when it first hit YouTube and I...
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A Bit of Happy #20: Combating Vegetable Prejudice
You know you have it at your house: vegetable prejudice. It’s everywhere! But slowly, in my house, I’m combating it… one vegetable at a time. I figure that most of the time when someone hates a...
View ArticleA Bit of Happy #10: Reading, Russian, and the Soviet Union
I taught myself to read when I was four and have read fairly easily and happily ever since- until the last few months that is. It’s been hurting a lot to read just lately. I often have pain after...
View ArticleA Bit of Happy #6: Christian Ferras Playing Sibelius
I first discovered Jean Sibelius (among many other wonderful things) in Tennessee. I love libraries, but I will always have a special fondness for Nashville’s for this reason (along with the fact that...
View ArticleZ is for Zenith
Late last night my mom took me out for a drive in the dark so that I could cry myself out privately and to entice me to eat something- anything. Drives, especially at night, tend to calm me. My mom was...
View ArticleHalf-step Epiphany
Every time I get back into the cello after a lengthy hiatus, I remember why it is that I do not play the cello when I’m at my sickest: It requires a substantial amount of muscle and energy for me....
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