I was supposed to post my review of this book this morning. But I have really good reasons why I didn’t, and they are even apropo to the topic–lucky me! I spent the majority of today in the urgent care, and then the rest of it in the ER. Fun times. So, I went to…
A few weeks ago I sang an opera aria (Vissi d’Arte from Tosca) at a funeral. After the service, one of my neighbors came up to me and said, “Who knew that the woman who runs up the hill to the bus stop in her pajamas every morning could sing like that!” After I overcame…
A couple weeks ago, Bria came home very happy about her Social Studies test. “Mrs. T said that I had nice essays!” she told me. Later, when I actually looked at the test, I saw she had received a C-, which normally would make my perfectionistic-since-birth daughter very upset. I asked Bria if she was…
Around here, that’s what PMS stands for. Once a month, I am relentless about getting things done. And I slave-drive my poor family. They must be used to it, because if I raise my voice during normal days, the girls get their feelings so hurt that I never hear the end of it. But during…
More than ten years ago, when I was 19 years old, I saw a flyer hanging in the HFAC (Harris Fine Arts Center…my home on BYU campus). It was announcing auditions for a “music mission” in Nauvoo…participants needed to be proficient in singing, acting and dancing. As a vocal performance major, I had the singing…