I fondly remember making tissue paper flowers as a child for our local community Mexican Fiesta. My small hands delicately pulled the tissue paper toward the center. The thin, colorful sheets crinkled as they separated. The flat, fan-folded stacks transformed into three-dimensional vibrant, fluffy domes. After we carefully constructed dozens of colorful tissue paper flowers, Read the full article…
Three Reasons Music Education is Beneficial – And Fun!
For the first six months that I played the flute, I nearly passed out every time. It hadn’t quite clicked for fifth-grade me that you didn’t need to take enormous breaths between each and every quarter note. I would stumble out of the band room in a fog, wondering if I was ever going to Read the full article…
From The Ashes of 2020, We Emerge (Stronger)
It’s 2021. We made it. Like most people, I could not wait to see 2020 in the rearview mirror. In addition to wanting to say goodbye to the most tumultuous year of my lifetime, there is something about a new year that brings hope, which I was more than ready to embrace when the calendar Read the full article…
3 Ideas to Help You Cope With Your Emotions During the Pandemic
The hardest thing to do when nothing is certain is to make peace with your situation. For most of us, it’s been about six (or even eight) weeks since this all started—this of course meaning the COVID-19 pandemic, a situation that is still too new and too startling to fully grasp yet. In the years Read the full article…