Category Archive

The following is a list of all entries from the General category.

New and Updated: Essays and Study Outlines

Be sure to check out my newly updated Additional Reading page!! Now featuring the essay RAVEL’S DAPHNIS ET CHLOÉ: A Miracle in the Making, and 6 Study Outlines on composers, their lives, and specific featured works, including:

Lully
Boccherini
Hindemith
Messiaen
Penderecki
Ravel

I have one more essay (of which I am VERY proud) – an in-depth study on Leonard Bernstein’s Second Symphony [...]


Real Women, Real Stories, Real Inspiration

This is more of a plug for my other wonderful and successful business… but this new video the Mary Kay company came out with to promote the Great Start promotion (as its April 30th deadline fast approaches) is great! I just had to share… And, yes, these are real ladies, with real testimonials, who wanted more for [...]


We’ve Moved!!!

James and I just recently moved into our first and brand NEW house!!

We’re in the lovely and developing city of Rialto, right next door to Fontana. We were able to pick out our countertops, our cabinets, our flooring… we got front and back landscaping and all appliances… we have a teaching studio/.music room right by [...]


Catching up a Bit…

toothbrush_241toothpaste_161  (…been lacking on the Regular Blogging Hygene end of my internet life…) :p

Well…

I am ashamed to see how few and far between my posts have become, and I thank you so much for your patience! My life has just been blossoming with opportunities (and obligations, too)… and I’ve gone through several MAJOR milestones just within these past 6 months, including marriage, some difficult changes in family relations, unexplicable and sudden death of my father at Christmastime uncertain_32, starting a new and second entrepreneurial business (in addition to my regular load of musicking), surviving my final school requirements and thus graduating with my Masters degree (yay!!), and buying a new home (we’re moving next week, on Friday the 13th!!!). In fact, several of my student-parents are wondering why I’m still working at all right now… hee hee hee… I’m looking forward to things settling down a bit – or at least balancing itself out.

Anyway, so I have explained myself, I hope. I feel better now… And now, for the latest news…

We’re Married!

We have been for two months today!
Check out just a small sampling of some of the gorgeous photos here…