October 18th, 2011

FacebookGoogleTwitterPinterestAfter years of giving master classes at universities around the country, I am proud to now be on faculty at both the Young Americans College of the Performing Arts (Fall Quarter: Audition and Interview Techniques), and California State Polytechnic University Pomona (Spring Quarter: Musical Theatre).   I am inspired and awed by the talent and drive of…

October 14th, 2011

FacebookGoogleTwitterPinterestWhenever I hit a prolonged creative stride, I find myself living in a state of both frenzy and pensiveness. It’s a strange dynamic, seemingly incongruent, but one I have embodied more than ever this year. The last six months have been all go, go, in my creative life. Once my littlest one turned 18-months, I…

September 20th, 2011

FacebookGoogleTwitterPinterestSometimes princes do show up and save you – and sometimes in a most unexpected way. July 29th, Georgia and I were sitting in Umbrella Media Studios. We had already recorded two days that week and had a good jump on my new album (The Secret of Happiness due out this November!). Our big days…

September 10th, 2011

FacebookGoogleTwitterPinterestWe all have a story of where we were and how we felt, and those stories make September 11, 2001 personal to each and every one of us. They are important, and we should share them with friends, strangers … our children, when the time is right. Time has healed some aspects, others may never…

August 09th, 2011

FacebookGoogleTwitterPinterestI’m sitting at dinner with Connie, the wife of my husband’s business associate, Sam, and we’re talking about her work; she has a small midwife/doula enterprise. After years as a trauma nurse, she had her own two children (just about the ages of mine: 5 and almost 2) and decided to change the trajectory of…