Performance Anxiety

Performance Anxiety - guitar with awkward comment

I’m standing on stage and the music starts. I’m playing my bass notes just right, smiling at the audience. I feel more nervous than usual because I’m singing a duet that I know well but haven’t performed much. My verse is coming up, coming up, coming up and…all of a sudden…my mind goes blank! I

Inside COVID: A Glimpse Into Intimate Relationships during a Pandemic

bundle of string with a hand reaching out of a computer, covid relationship

I had an entirely different blog entry ready to go for March, but, alas, with a grinding shift of gears, we are now in a global pandemic. My practice moved entirely online (thank goodness I am able to do that) and my kids are in online classes (hopefully, because I am too busy working to stand over them).