Emily’s Recital

In Emily’s book Brave Emily she and her classmates learn to play the flutophone, and then perform them at a class recital. Through a series of mishaps, Emily ends up having to play a solo. As a music teacher, I really love that this book’s subject is school music, but I will say that I am…

Rebecca vs. Daylight Savings Time

Rebecca yawned as she read her script. She was so tired. She had stayed up late last night practicing, and still wanted to make sure everything was perfect before dress rehearsal this evening. She yawned again and shut her eyes. She had time for just a quick nap…. A while later, Rebecca bolted up and…

International Women’s Day 2017

Happy International Women’s Day! I am so very lucky to have grown up in a time and place where I never doubted that a woman can do anything she sets her mind to. I was in Girl Scouts from kindergarten through twelfth grade (and was a Gold Award recipient) and I feel like that was…

How I’m turning my excitement for Nanea into an announcement about my new Etsy shop!

A few weeks ago on Valentines Day, I woke up and opened the Instagram app on my phone (a bad habit I have–it’s a bit of an addiction, but we won’t get into that now). I blinked several times and actually shook myself a bit, sure what I wasn’t seeing was correct. My feed was…