news: joy just because

Joy Just Because is a weekly note from me to you. It also doubles as my mailing list for show and project announcements.
It's short and sweet, always free, and always written by me.

I'll take it all

My brain is a jumble, but I am happy. My kids have a thousand different needs and wants and plans and no understanding of how much work I have to do to manage those thousand needs, wants, and plans, but…

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The universe let me off the hook

I woke up Monday morning and wrote “I feel overwhelmed” in my morning pages a half a dozen times. I had body buzz anxiety rippling through me and the weight of a long to-do list pressing down on my shoulders…

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Can you feel it?

Can you feel it? The overnight switch to summer brain that happened this weekend? The shuffling of the calendar so that “clean out gardens” and “bonfire” hopped to the top of the priority list and anything business as usual dropped…

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Leaving social media halved my audience

When I left social media I wasn’t sure what it would do to my visibility as a musician, though I had a hunch Facebook events were effective with my audience and that I might take a hit there. After more…

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