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Pancakes. Sausage. Bacon. The sun just peeking over the walls onto the flowering plumeria and the metallic stage area. Kids in yellow. Parents in yellow. Friends. Family. Singing. Dancing. Mac, […]

I’ve been going over to the Music Lab, renting a small rehearsal space, and attempting to write songs again…I don’t even remember the last time I had a quiet moment […]

Let me start with a fun story: Yesterday, io and I sat out in miniature red, blue and green plastic chairs (one for her shark and her yellow Neo pet, […]

This morning, I was driving iolana to pre-school, and I popped in a cd of a song I wrote for my mom. io sits directly behind me in her car […]

Angelface is a place where you can get a facial or massage in a wondrously calm environment by a woman with the most dewy, healthy face. This is the story […]

Beluga whales are gray when they are first born, to camoflouge the babies from killer whales and polar bears, their predators. They are about 150 pounds when born, and the […]

Rick Perry has got to go. I can not believe what is happening here in Texas. I am completely dumbfounded over the BETRAYAL of the governor towards the people. There […]

Every year around pledge drive, on KUT Public Radio at the University of Austin, I am a guest of John Aielli’s fantastic morning show, “Eklektikos”. We have lots of fun […]

This is what I have experienced in the last week: Spoke at Leon Springs Elementary for 200 teachers about “Living in the Light”. The theater had beach blankets and beach […]

I am reading the biography of Harriet Tubman. It is factual and clips along; not much fanciful storytelling by the author, but who needs a storyteller when you are reading […]

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here is a picture of me and my other co-horts from NARAS (national association of recording arts and sciences) on our way to the FCC community meeting in San Antonio […]

Are the two joined walking stick insects a male and a female, or a mother and child? There is a set of two that show up under my back porch […]

Played a private backyard party today for a lovely, lovely family, but the rain came down and there were swimming pools, slip-n-slides and snacks to compete with and so I […]

They say the eye of an animal holds wisdom. Trying to look up into the eye of an elephant could be intimidating, except that the animal is ten times smarter […]

So, the other question Gary had for me was, basically, how do we, as parents, respond differently to our children than our parents did to us? Here’s my answer to […]

Today, I sent a letter to my friend, Ethridge: The grass under my back was so itchy, but iolana had fallen asleep on my legs and belly, so i dared […]

Sang at the Tarrytown parade this morning…what utter joy! Saw Ed Clements from KLBJ (love him!) and my dentist, Dr. Kavin Kelp! We sang “This Land Is Your Land” and […]

That’s my blood type.

I can’t recall the last time I saw the morning sun, or could hear the hum of the fish tank, or saw the trees standing still. The rain has been […]

After doing this morning’s laundry, making breakfast (we had eggs, bacon and toast…nothing too glamourous today!), cleaning the kitchen, packing the car for the kids and myself (that included interesting […]

First, read the entry before this one. I go on a rant! Whoo! Please read about Lindsey. It is much more important than this entry. Go on. Go read that […]

A young woman, perhaps 18, shows up on my doorstep today with a heavy backpack, sweet smile, and ponytails. We start talking, and I ask her what she is selling. […]