So how’m I doing in my quest to re-invent my life, follow my evolving Blisses and create the life I really, really want? Timing is everything. I started writing this through a lens of back spasm pain. I was sitting at my computer, and except for being tired (as usual) from staying up too late…
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Happiness vs. Greatness Redux
I had to hit the ground running when I got back from music camp, what with a custom ketubah waiting to be completed (photo below) in and among catching up with general business stuff. Oh, and my sales tax return (still) to be done. (Yes, I know I’m a horrible procrastinator.) Running a business comes…
Weekly Review #17: Home again, and not from porn camp
So how’m I doing in my quest to re-invent my life, follow my evolving Blisses and create the life I really, really want? Last time, people: I was not at porn camp. I was at music camp. However, in attempting to describe music camp to “civilians” (ie, people who have never been to music camp),…
CCMC 2008 Student Concert: Teach Me Tonight
In honor of tonight’s CCMC student concert, I thought I’d share my performance from my last CCMC student concert, back in 2008. On guitar: Chris Gramp and Mike Wollenberg On bass: Karen Horner As is the case with all camps, the humor here is mostly in-jokes. A couple of keys: 1) All week long I…
Monday Hearts for Madalene
Happy Monday, dear readers! I’ll actually be at California Coast Music Camp at the time this post is published, but with the magic of scheduled posts, and seeing as it’s Monday, I thought I’d share some Monday marvelousness. Monday Hearts for Madalene At Jazz Camp West a few weeks ago I met an amazing woman,…
Weekly Review #16: Headless chicken on a hamster wheel edition
So how’m I doing in my quest to re-invent my life, follow my evolving Blisses and create the life I really, really want? Well, the car is loaded and the twenty (that’ right, 20) items on today’s to-do list checked off. This despite a full five (5) hours being taken up this morning by a…
Never compare yourself to your heroes; look back instead
Last night, as I labored at my drafting table to calligraph an Aramaic text on a ketubah print, I distracted my aching hand by listening to a Third Tribe seminar with Sonia Simone and Johnny B. Truant. It was a fun interview, but one part in particular really stuck with me: The reminder not to…
Staying out of pooping range
The bird poop and feathers on my windshield are a clear indication that the doves have taken up their summer residence again, building their nest in the rafters of the carport. Right above my car. Very convenient for them. Not so much for me. I already needed a car wash (one more thing that has…
Weekly Review #15: A day late and a dollar short
So how’m I doing in my quest to re-invent my life, follow my evolving Blisses and create the life I really, really want? All work and no play makes Melissa a dull girl. Although it’s after midnight on what is now Monday morning, and I’m finally sitting down to write what was supposed to be…
A former bulimic looks back to focus forward
Whenever I teach beginning calligraphy students, I tell them to keep their practice sheets, write the date on them and tuck them away in a drawer. Then down the road, when the frustrated novice calligraphers are convinced (as they inevitably will be) that their skills are going backwards, they can pull out those early attempts…
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