To The Light

Dear friends, The Seven Steps Up concert tonight in Grand Haven, MI is cancelled due to sudden illness & a trip to the ER for one of the venue owners. The venue owner is okay but we want to give him time to properly recover. Please send your good thoughts and stay tuned for rescheduling […]

Lately, there have been moments when I question my own value. I’m not doing it on purpose but it just kind of arises on its own from who knows where and it’s a very painful feeling to wrangle with. It may be triggered by a fear of being seen, really seen. If I’m about to […]

Regretfully Winterbloom Shows Cancelled: Every year at this time, I head to Boston, one of my happy places, for the coffee, for the bustling squares and for the love of music & song that I’ve yet to experience anywhere else. Also, I head to see my “Blooms” (Antje Duvekot, Meg Hutchinson and Natalia Zukerman). Winterbloom […]

My mom LOVES art museums, kayaking, and reading really good books, but she doesn’t particularly love sunbathing so I don’t ask her to go with me to the beach. I could ask her and then feel bummed out when she doesn’t want to. Or, I could not go at all. Or, I could go alone […]

A few years ago, I was about to leave for a tour of the West Coast when I saw this movie about how flying was one of the worst forms of pollution. It really impacted me so I decided I’d take the train from Boston to Seattle instead. (Back to this in a minute). As […]

One evening as I was driving, the sentence “Other People Don’t Exist To Make You Happy” popped into my head. Although those words could’ve sounded harsh, I felt profound relief. It’s not that I consciously thought other people existed to make me happy, it’s just that sometimes I acted as if they did. A little […]

Hi friends, It’s been a while since I’ve written. I’m at the beginning of a creative, more quiet period and one of the things that comes up for me when I start writing deeply, is that I discover some of those forgotten places in me that are asking for love: “Would now be a good […]

A few years ago, I wanted to write a letter to the Afghan man who had lost 11 members of his family (8 of them children) at the hands of a US Army sergeant who broke into innocent civilians’ homes at night and killed them. I felt I had to do something. I wanted to tell […]

I love this time of year. Like clockwork, my body remembers. As a kid, I’d get out of school, find and my brothers and I would go straight to my Grandma Rosemary’s house in Ottawa, Illinois. We’d run in the sprinkler, go to Pitstix pond, eat ice cream and just hang out. When we returned […]

How do you get back up on the horse? It’s a funny expression since most of us don’t ride horses as part of our daily lives, but a question I ask myself a lot as an artist and entrepreneur. When life calls me away from my work in the world (as my 5-year old daughter’s […]