Not Knowing Every Answer
Experience isn’t knowing every answer. It’s knowing that answers rhyme.
Human Nature
Nerves Are A Sign You CARE
Repeat that mantra when you get nervous.
First Week Exhaustion
What accounts for the tiredness of teachers (and students!) this time of year?
Do An Audition, Get A Cookie
Everyone auditions better when they feel less stressed an anxious. Why not hear the best versions possible of every audition?
Old Habits
They say old habits die hard. That’s a good thing!
What We Procrastinate
Pay attention to what you procrastinate.
Left Handed
If I had been born 100 years earlier, I would have spent my school days with my left hand tied behind my back. Societal pressure would have sought to prevent my handedness from being expressed. We cared more about conformity than about sense of self. When this pressure decreased, there […]
First Day Jitters
I’m not someone to get school anxiety. Several of my nearest and dearest have “Sunday Scaries” pretty much every Sunday, but that’s not my demeanor. The one exception is the first rehearsal of the year.* For as long as I can remember, I enter that day absolutely convince that I’ve […]
At The Mercy Of Your Calendar
Being at the mercy of your calendar can be a great gift – if you only choose to see it that way. As summer ends, teachers ramp up. I don’t know any choir teachers who aren’t at the mercy of their calendar from August to June. Concerts, rehearsals, trips, personal […]
Disposable/Recoverable
Failure isn’t a sign to quit. It’s a sign to rebuild. I found a rusty cast iron skillet on the street a while back, by a trash can waiting to get picked up. Knowing the way to fix it, I carried it the rest of my walk; not very long […]