The Portland Fertile Ground Festival (https://www.fertilegroundpdx2022.org/) runs through February 6th and has SO many wonderful shows –...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lypzHkThOts I hope you can watch the shows! Here are some photos from the one live rehearsal the director...

I’m just going to be brutally honest with you here. I used to love to sing when I didn’t know what I was doing. Now that I realize all...

I’m wishing you a beautiful winter solstice and happy holidays! What does the holiday season mean to you? And how do you express it...

I hope you and yours were blessed with a fun and gratitude-filled, tasty Thanksgiving holiday. George and I enjoyed a wonderful afternoon...

Fall leaves in my neighborhood. Happy Thanksgiving! I’d love to hear how you United Staters are celebrating the holiday this year. I try...

Are you having as hard a time as I am believing the holiday season is upon us again already? Where has 2021 gone? The first read-through...

It is my great pleasure to announce… Wow, that is such a cliché. But it really, really is my great pleasure! I’m still having a hard time...

I’ve been thinking about community a lot lately, and I have a feeling I’m not the only one. How about you? Maybe it has something to do...

I don’t know how to say this. It’s like coming out of the closet. But that’s not quite right either, because it belittles what some of...

Do you sometimes find it challenging to fit everything you need and want to do into your schedule? While I was walking today, I started a...

A couple of months ago, I posted my most liked YouTube video, Five Tips to Give Your Speeches Vocal Variety. I hope the tips were helpful...

I saw my voice teacher, Linda, last Sunday for the first time since she moved to Holland. She had some complicated personal business in...

I received an odd request. To help a friend write kitten bios. Not the kind of thing that happens every day, right?! Glen is a friend...

I’m honored to provide a guest post for author, writer, speaker and blogger Nancy Christie, whose PERIPHERAL VISIONS AND OTHER STORIES...

Guess what? Master entrepreneur Callum Laing, who focuses on collaboration in lieu of competition, invited me for an in-depth interview....

These five tips to give your speeches vocal variety are from a 10-minute speech I gave for Toastmasters. It’s one of my most-watched and...

The sign says it as you drive into Carlton, Oregon, population 2,180 as of the 2019 census. “Carlton, A Great Little Town,” destination...

Oh my God. I’m cranky. Irritable. My body feels tense. I only remember laughing once all day today. And it’s not because of taxes! Of...

Source Collage Card by Laura Handke Do you ever look back on your life so far and find the way certain things came together to be nothing...