What do you do when the activities you enjoy the most involve sitting in a chair? I’ve talked about this before on my blog, about how hard I find it to keep up an exercise routine. I’ve attempted various types that never lasted. My longest success was probably yoga and even that was interrupted by...
Category: Self-help
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Perspective (Part 3 about Aging)
The old adage goes, “Youth is wasted on the young.” (I thought it was Oscar Wilde, but after a tiny bit of googling I found out it was more likely George Bernard Shaw, which you can read about here.) I’ve always loved that quote and admired the wit behind it. It evokes so much in...
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Aging ain’t all bad
I thought I’d do a short series on aging since it’s on my mind lately. There are obvious downsides to it (check my previous post here), but there are many upsides and I thought I’d do a couple of posts focusing on those. Most of us know the downsides, but if I remember being young...
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Upping my Blogging game, and some thoughts about aging
I’m a complete amateur when it comes to web design, I admit it. However, I’m trying to make my website better and it seems that everything I try is met with resistance. All I get is the circle of death. The problem is I’m such a know-nothing that I don’t even know where to start...
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“Death is Nothing at all”
I’ve been going through my gmail inbox, trying to get rid of the backlog, and it’s so overwhelming I had to figure out a way to proceed. One idea I had was to search for certain senders and then delete most (or all) of the emails from them. I started with easy ones, like my...
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2019 for the Win
It’s January and I’ve decided to follow my guru, Gretchen Rubin, and make a “19 for 2019” list. It’s like I’m making 19 resolutions, except I don’t have to throw my hands up at the end of January if I haven’t done them yet, because I have the WHOLE year to put them in place....
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I Push On
I have a favourite song from my daughter, Erica Lee Martin’s album, Out of The Playground. It’s called I Push On and it just gets me. It’s poignant and haunting and it speaks about facing challenges and finding inspiration to keep going. I just love it. For those of us who aren’t blessed with an...
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November white
I was feeling the greyness of November very heavily on my psyche the other day, when I wrote the post, November Blues. I don’t think I really believed that it was only the dreariness of the weather that was making me feel so down, but when I woke up this morning and the world was...
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November Blues
It’s a dreary month, no question, but the Nordic countries have something they call “hygge”, a Danish word defined in English as “A quality of cosiness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being.” (thank you, Oxford Living Dictionary) I think the idea is to make up for the lack of light...
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I gotta practice, but first…
Right now I ought to be practicing. At least that’s what I’m thinking most of the time that I’m doing something else. That’s the life and curse of being a musician. Practicing is always hanging in the background, like that angel/devil hanging on your shoulders; only they’re both telling me to practice. Ever since I...