DAY 8 Thursday, April 9th, 1998 (12:00pm) “Einbahn" (one way) is all over! VIENNA, AUSTRIA: HOTEL HARMONIE Today we didn’t have a concert so Lacy, Linda, her mom Ms. D., Sue, Kathy and I all took the subway to shop. It took us about an hour to get change for the ticket and find out… Continue reading Voices Europe Tour Choir Journal Day 8: Vienna Austria 1998
DAY 6 Tuesday, April 7th, 1998 (10:50pm) VIENNA, AUSTRIA: HOTEL HARMONIE Today we left for Austria and went through the check point with our passports. An official man came on our bus and personally checked each one of our passports. He smelled good and not like many other men here smell like. The scenery is… Continue reading Voices Europe Tour Choir Journal Day 6 & 7: Bratislava, Slovakia, Gumpoldskirchen & Vienna, Austria 1998
DAY 5 Monday, April 6th, 1998 (10:45pm) CESKY KRUMLOV, CZECH REPUBLIC: HOTEL RUZE Today we left Prague and are now at Cesky Krumlov and are staying at the Hotel Ruze We all slept on the five hour bus ride and are getting along better. The hotel is 4 out of 5 stars and we are… Continue reading Voices Europe Tour Choir Journal Day 5: Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic 1998
DAY 3 Saturday, April 4th, 1998 (late at night) PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC: HOTEL BELVEDERE (In honor of St. Mary) Today we went to a monastery and sang Ave Maria, our first song here. It was very moving and I got a postcard of it. The treasures in the top of the monastery had a picture… Continue reading Voices Europe Tour Choir Journal Day 3 & 4: Prague, Czech Republic 1998
DAY 1 Thursday, April 2nd, 1998 (BUS FROM MADISON TO O’HARE AIRPORT) We just left. The grass is very green outside. I’m sitting here on the bus and don’t know exactly how I feel. I feel calm and am ready to take everything in. In a way I feel like I’m going on a field… Continue reading Voices Europe Tour Choir Journal Day 1 & 2: Madison to O’Hare to Prague, Czech Republic 1998
The inspiration for this post is a choir journal I kept between 1997-1998, the school year I went to Europe to sing with my high school choir. I found it in my basement well over a year ago. After reading it, I was inspired to include it in my micro-museum here inside the Annie Lynn… Continue reading America the Beautiful, Singing with My all Girls Choir: Voices & Our 1998 Europe Tour
We were on our way home from the concert we just saw together. It was late, and Dad was driving the back roads in the dark. (This was the same night I wrote about in Lessons in the "Slip Note" and Other Concert Goings With My Dad) He shared how his childhood buddy Chuck had… Continue reading From Reel-to-Reel: Digitizing My Dad’s 1967 Hamilton Tableau Band Recording
My mother grew up poor. I know this because she told me. Now I also know there is a whole range of what one might consider "poor," so in the context of this, I'll say I'm not exactly sure how poor she was in comparison to anyone else, only that food and money were tight,… Continue reading Making her 1974 veil with her brothers, my Mom paid for her entire wedding herself
My phone was dead. It was topping nearly 100 degrees. We'd already spent four full days in parks, walking more steps than I've ever seen on my steps tracker, double that for my little guy we figured. "My feat are dying!" he was saying. First it was Legoland, about 45 minutes South of Orlando. We… Continue reading They were done, but I wasn’t. The three hours I stayed alone at Magic Kingdom in Disney World!
I was recently asked by the Tennessee Highlighter if I had any advice for those thinking about whether to keep going or to give up. To keep going, or to give up, that is a great question! Right?! I know. They wanted to include me in a "shoutout" series, which as they explained it is… Continue reading To keep going, or to give up, that is the question: Tennessee Highlighter Article
