If you’re new to the blog and don’t think you’ll be reading dozens of old (but wonderful) entries, allow me to update you on where we are, now. Beth and I are selling our home in Yorktown Heights, New York. After 17 years of living in this beautiful writer’s treehouse, the time has come to …
I have been having a hard 24 hours. Since we determined that our trailer’s jack was broken, I’ve been feeling frustrated, angry, disappointed, and sad. In my last post, I wrote about welcoming difficult situations as an opportunity to become a better warrior. That still makes a lot of sense to me and it’s been …
Five years ago, I started praying to God for problems. I asked my Higher Power to test me, to bring on challenges so I could become stronger and wiser. I wanted these tests to be hard and uncomfortable because I knew that the steel of my sword needed forging in fire and combat. All of …
We are T-12 days to leaving our home of 17 years and 1 day away from the estate sale that we hope will whisk away most of our belongings. It has been a long and bittersweet process for me, delightedly rifling through old letters and photographs, unloading items I have kept for way too long …
“We grow forward when the delights of growth and anxieties of safety are greater than the growth of anxiety and the delights of safety.” Abraham Maslow In my early years, I was taught how to pursue comfort, not courage. Success, I learned, was “to enjoy life, retire and then do more enjoying!” In effect, I …
Our beautiful home has been transformed into a thrift bazaar. There are tables upstairs and downstairs and in the garage covered with all manner of stuff from every corner of our lives. Each item has a post-it note with its price. Beth keeps saying, “This is weird.” True. The two of us have tried our …
Today, we visited an elementary school and wrote three songs with first graders. It’s one of my favorite things to do – writing and recording a simple song in 45 minutes, collaborating with the teacher and the kids to make a pleasant song. It’s a kind of magic trick to do it so fast and I …
Meadow, a Senagal parrot, lived here for a short while. She was too wild or we were too inept at bird ownership. Luckily, we found her a new home. Did you know parrots can live as long as humans? I like to think Meadow is still alive somewhere, hopefully happier. Jessi was our first family …
For the last 30 years, Beth and I have been pursuing a career as children’s musicians. Here in the New York area, we’re well-known as Teaching Artists, folks who come to schools, libraries and summer camps to sing fun songs and, more importantly, share music on themes relevant to the academic and social-emotional curriculums. (That …