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This morning began very differently than Monday. Some similarities: the best laid plans, too much wine the night before. From there it all went to hell in a handbasket! How she does it, nobody knows, but Irene our fearless tour guide got us all up and even out of the house at 8:30am after aRead More…

Was awakened Monday morning by a Tigger pounce.  I had the best laid plans to wake at 9am, get coffee and collect myself, and then join Danielle to meet Donnetta at her new hotel for a 10am run through Dublin.  The best laid plan.  Thwarted by a night of too much wine and a mindRead More…

…because day one was a blur of juggling luggage and ridiculous jet-lag spent rambling the streets in search of a non-existent Barclay’s bank…perhaps stories being saved for a song.  But here’s where we are today: Four Women. One bathroom.  Recipe for disaster? Possibly.  But if anyone can do it, this group of women can.  (checkRead More…

I just posted a video of our song “Live!” performed live at the World Cafe earlier this month.  What a fun show!  Check out the video here or on my youtube channel…enjoy!!

On February 19th last year my daughter, Clara, turned 5 years old.  On February 19th last year my dear friend, Lori Meli, died.  It makes for an emotional seesaw come next month. Lori is survived by her husband, Fredi.  Some of you may know him as my bass player for many years when we wereRead More…

Back when I was sure the only instrument these hands would hold would be a scalpel, I had a recurring dream.  A goofy dream that I never dared share because it had nothing to do with medicine or biomedical engineering or mathematics or any of the stuff I was surely meant to be forever involvedRead More…

Everything happens in May. My sister told me yesterday. On May 5, 1995 Matthew died and my world was turned on it’s head. I grabbed the rope and didn’t drown despite the rain that would not let up for 6 weeks after Matti’s last day on earth. I climbed aboard the life raft that wasRead More…

The thing is that music for me has always been about people. And how it all happens is defined almost absolutely by the folks involved. The writing has been inspired by relationships…a few too many bad ones, no doubt, but relationships all the same.  People.  How we love them, how we think we loath themRead More…