Someone asked, how do you make time for this to become part of your life? How do you even find time to write? That’s a good question, I thought.
Let's start with when. When does this happen exactly?
Well let’s…
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Jenny Bienemann: It sure looks easier than it is.
It sure looks easier than it is.
Teaching, that is.
I say this with the certitude only someone who has taught a mere four classes over two days, can say. And, I was co-teaching! Robin Bienemann and I did it…
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Jenny Bienemann: ‘TIS THE SEASON TO GIVE – give something up, that is
Jenny Bienemann: ‘TIS THE SEASON TO GIVE – give something up, that is
I have given up so many things, so many ways, so many times.
You learn a lot when you let go. That’s why it is important that…
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Jenny Bienemann: Listen to your little voice.
Before you read this, take a look at these videos: Welcome in the Light and Your Own Cup.
I get excited.
A wonderful new venue in Arlington Heights, Hey Nonny, has invited Robin and me to take over the…
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Jon Langford: Seventeen sensuous syllables
Want to do something fun? Watch Jon Langford's Haiku Milieu song, Tears like Stars Must Fall.
Jon Langford. He's the real deal. I'm going to guess you know that already. Visual artist, musician, poet, writer. The Mekons. The Waco…
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Kate FitzGerald: The Bread and the Circus
Before you read this, enjoy Kate's "We Get to the End" video for the Haiku Milieu Series.
Kate FitzGerald. 'Tis Herself. She can be nothing other than herself. This is a quality I admire and wish to emulate. But somehow…
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Gerald Dowd: Collaboration is Scary
Gerald Dowd. I had seen him on stage. I had been on stage with him. But I had never really “seen” him, until a Christmas show hosted by Rachel Drew at Sylvie’s.
He took the stage. “Oh good,” I thought…
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Chris Neville: He Who Bringeth The Party
If you see Chris Neville on stage, you know you’re in good hands. You're at a party.
The music is going to be smokin’. You will be transported. And you will laugh!
The kind of laughing you did when life…
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Ron Lazzeretti: The Heart of a True Collaborator
You remember the story of how Robin and I started going to FitzGeralds, right? How he lured me there and I went reluctantly, with the promise of meeting this one wonderful musical couple?
One thing led to another, and between…
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Dag Juhlin: The next one, that's the one.
Dag Juhlin: the man, the myth, the legend. I snuck out of my house to see him play at the West End in The Slugs. When my mom found out, she grounded me for weeks. I snuck out the next…
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