No matter what mood I am in, it always puts a smile on my face to drop another stack of bags off at Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center to keep my Aunt Carol’s memory alive through a project I created for her called, “Color Your Way To Calm,” helping ease other cancer patients’ pain by focusing on something as simple as coloring beautiful mandalas during their chemo treatments. Here is the story I wrote around my Aunt Carol and “Color Your Way To Calm”…
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My Definition Of Balance
My definition of Balance: Knowing that your tendency is to go to extremes and then scaling it back so you’re walking through life down the middle of those extremes, as consistently as you can, without judgement.
Ever since I can remember, I have been one to….
This is life…
This is life… It’s filled with so many highs and even more lower than lows. When you’re not sure what’s next or exactly what you should be doing, be kind to yourself, allow time to take its course; keep being willing to…
Slowing Down…
When you’re forced to slow down, by life’s unexpected obstacles and barricades that suddenly present themselves, the odd thing is, all the busy parts of your day that you thought were getting you somewhere actually become…
The Definition of Songwriting…
I was thinking about this recently and came up with the following…
What Happens When You Pursue Your Passion?
What have I learned through pursuing my music and songwriting career? Here’s some insight which I hope inspires you if you’re on the fence of pursuing your vision, but need a little push…
A Year of Reflection
2018 was one of the hardest years of my life. Thinking back on in all, here’s what I came up with to make sense of it all…
Define Your Purpose
Passion… Patience… Persistence…
Yes You Can… Dream BIG!
Following through, doing what you love, and taking whatever action possible so you can make a living out of your passion, is challenging. Pretty much, every day I wake up and there is a little voice telling me to stop perusing a career as a singer, songwriter and performer. It says things like, “You’re too old. You’re not that good. You’ll never become a full-time musician.” Well, here’s how I see it…
“Get down,” one shouted. “Stay down,” screamed another. Enough is Enough…
This morning I woke very unsettled from what happened in Las Vegas last night. I took a walk through Shelby Park to make sense of what I was feeling and this came out. I wanted to share it with you…