Just Google “work-life balance” or “mom-work balance” and you’ll find a list of hundreds (maybe even thousands) of articles telling you tips and tricks with balancing work and family. Unless you’re a career musician (most of us aren’t!), these articles aren’t satisfactory. What if your job...
[caption id="attachment_154" align="alignright" width="100"] Nathan in his GNR onesie[/caption] I love shopping for clothes for Nathan. And I especially love buying (or receiving) cute little boy attire emblazoned with band logos, images of rock icons, and big electric guitars. The latter, especially. But if I hadn’t had...
I spent the last six days in New Orleans — a place near and dear to my heart, where I spent my junior year of college and six months post-college – on a business trip. The trip was supposed to be a little more than...
Yes, I am a writer. For a living. That means people pay me to write stuff (and teach guitar after hours). When I was a little girl, I really wanted to be a writer. When I was a slightly-less-little girl, I wanted to write songs...
I teach Skype guitar lessons. And though it’s mainly as a supplemental service for my existing students, I do it for new students, too. While it’s true my fee is slightly lower than for in-person lessons (after all, I only have to travel to my home...
For three years after I moved to Connecticut I continued to teach guitar every Sunday in Brooklyn. I’d wake up at 8 or 9, fueled by three to eight hours of sleep, and head for either the Metronorth station in Stamford or the highway (at first,...