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It’s been nine years since I really played piano; I stopped taking lessons and took a break when I was pregnant with my daughter and now that she’s older and I have some extra time (especially if I get up at four in the morning), I’m going to start playing again – and I am [...]

I put together another WordPress theme featuring a cute bird – Red Bird. Red, white, blue.  Widget-ready. DOWNLOAD | DEMO Enjoy!

Here’s my first WordPress theme release on Fyrewurks – let me know if you have any comments or suggestions! Free Japanese WP Theme: Sakura Pink, Black, Grey, White. Widget-ready. DOWNLOAD | DEMO Enjoy!

Several years ago I tuned into Austin City Limits on my local PBS channel to see Bright Eyes; that was when I discovered and fell in love with M Ward. Since then, I’ve bought everything of M Ward’s that I could get my hands on – and have played it all to death (and it’s [...]

The Van Cliburn Foundation recently introduced a YouTube Competition for Amateurs in which the winner will win an automatic entry into the sixth International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs in 2011. You see, I have a keen interest in the competition because I have a fantasy of entering it.  And that’s why it was unsettling when I realized that [...]

A week ago I found a new obsession – Ancestry.com!  I decided to start working on our family tree and signed up with them because they have massive amounts of records scanned and added to their database – census records, immigration records, birth and death records, and much more.  So I decided that getting a [...]

Dreams, music, people, colors, and other loves of mine – that’s what you’ll see here. When I was younger I loved keeping journals though due to being too busy for my own good, haven’t kept one in years.  Then when I got a little older I (busily) collected lots of information on various websites of mine.  Now [...]