This song says so much about how I’ve always felt. People have so much trouble being truthful and honest. If you search for tenderness it isn’t hard to find. You can have the love you need to live. But if you look for truthfulness You might just as well be blind. It always seems to [...]
Where does a child go when the family and medical community lets her down? When she doesn’t know how to trust anymore? Doesn’t know WHO to Trust? But is slowly drowning in emotions that she is ill equipped to deal with and dying inside and SCREAMING for help? She (Me in this case) turns to [...]
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach 7 years of secrets and silence and pent up emotions. 7 years of alienation from family, friends and peers because of the deep secrets she was told to keep. Big changes happening, Jr High School, A changing body, raging hormones and more [...]
For almost 38 years I have kept my secrets, maintained the wall of silence for the benefit of everyone else in the family. I had a friend suggest today that I shouldn’t be doing this, that I might hurt someone else by telling my secrets. I might shatter their illusions of the man my grandfather [...]
Grandpa’s Girl 2 words used together that always make me cringe. It’s what the family called me. Awww isn’t that sweet, she’s sitting on Grandpa’s lap again, while he brushes her hair, never seeing or realizing what was happening in his pants. Look how thoughtful she is, bringing Grandpa his beer, going on walks with [...]
As touched upon in a prior posting, music has always been a constant in my life. A way to express how I was feeling when I didn’t have the the words or ability to say it myself. At 5 years of age, I started playing violin and took lessons at the Eastman School of Music [...]
Music is something that has been a constant throughout my life. In kindergarten my teacher thought I had an aptitude for music and I was selected to start taking lessons on an instrument along with one other girl. She chose the cello and I chose the violin because it was smaller and easier to carry. [...]
Recently I learned of a co-worker who is now currently undergoing her 2nd round of treatments for Breast Cancer. I also have an Aunt who spent the last year battling for her life, so I created this section Breast Cancer Support Collectible Musical Figurines to help spread awareness and to give ideas of a great [...]