A discussion took place recently on the vo-bb.com about VOICE2007, a conference that took place in Las Vegas last month, ostensibly as a networking and teaching/learning event for voice artists. About 200 people participated and from all accounts it was a great success. There has been much talk about making it an annual event and [...]

I wrote last week, and not for the first time, about the importance of getting out and doing things. Like going to a climbing wall (and by the way, yes I did go again, and yes I did try the more challenging route again and this time was successful!). But sometimes it’s far more routine [...]

Last week we had a tree removed from our property. This tree was a once-majestic sugar maple and when we moved here 11 years ago, it was already declining. We put it on a schedule of biannual fertilization and kept up with pruning and had a few cables put in to stabilize it. But at [...]

In some way I have always been somewhat jealous of people with routine – people who have the discipline to run a few miles every morning, who always read the newspaper and take the dog for three daily walks. Some of the people who do this can do it because they don’t have a lot [...]