It’s Time To Pause And Listen

It’s Time To Pause And Listen

All week, I thought about what I could write to keep inspiring you and lifting you up (if you need a lift, that is).Each day brought something new that I wanted to share with you – great insights, practices that helped me with my own anxieties, and even fun...
Breathe, Adjust Your Mindset, Support, Take Action

Breathe, Adjust Your Mindset, Support, Take Action

I’ll be completely transparent with you: As I sat down to write this, I got the news that our September tour has been canceled. Not only that, but the rest of the concerts I planned for this year aren’t happening either. If ‘ugh’ is a feeling, I felt “ugh, ugh, ugh.”...
The Hardest Thing To Learn

The Hardest Thing To Learn

It’s been quite a week!I drove my son Blais to the first day of band mini-camp, which has been modified for the pandemic and also moved around because of a prayer vigil held in our town for George Floyd.Blais was sad that the camp was reduced to only three hours a...
Art That Will Melt Your Heart

Art That Will Melt Your Heart

Here is to the Class of 2020! Here is to every child (and every grown-up) who’s ready to fly. Here’s to my son Evan Amadeus, who learned so early in his childhood that living life comes with taking the falls and tumbles, bleeding through the cuts (and not just the...
Accepting The Changes Around You

Accepting The Changes Around You

“Everything IS already different,” I said to my youngest son Blais, on a recently tough day.It will never be ‘back to normal’. It may be ‘forward’ to a more normalized life, but definitely not ‘back.’Because we are 62 days older than we were when this started for us....
Four Tools You Can Use For Overwhelm

Four Tools You Can Use For Overwhelm

I was sitting on my back deck drinking coffee with David, enjoying a warm May morning and watching the wind move through the maple trees. The low, lacy clouds trailed along like dandelion seeds. It was one of those moments that was so intensely beautiful and so...

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