When Music Speaks – A song gets stuck in your head. You hum it all day. Then a story starts to form. These posts begin with music and end with meaning. Each one turns a lyric or melody into a moment worth remembering—a muse rising from the rhythm.
Hugh Jackman is back on Broadway, and we got to sit five rows from him (explode into cheers here). And speaking of backs, I’m the luckiest girl in the world because I’m married to Hugh Backman, but we’ll get to that in a minute. Back to The Music Man. We were so close to him.… Continue reading This One’s For Hugh! (Jackman, Of Course)
We can’t go through life unscathed. Inevitably, we’ll be both patient and caregiver, or maybe both at the same time. Yet, it comes as such a big surprise. As if we weren’t expecting a health scare to disrupt our otherwise perfect lives. So maybe we should be asking ourselves, instead: which side are you on… Continue reading The Gift Exchange Somewhere Between Life & Death
Calling all you caregivers–be part of our creative team (the Ortiz treble makers) and help us write a song that matters. We work alone most of the time, Skylar and Alexandra don’t need me to write a song and publish it on their YouTube channel, and I stick to what I do best: writing my… Continue reading Mean Well–This Song’s For You (By You, Too)
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