When Life Gives you Lemons, Check to See if you can Upgrade to a Box of Chocolates! In 1651, English philosopher Thomas Hobbes wrote a masterpiece of political philosophy, Leviathan, in which he opined that the natural life of man was: “[S]olitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” It is interesting to consider the similarities between life in England […]
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Lockdown Lemonade #25 by Carey Appel
Grateful Not that I ever care to repeat these past 12 months!!! But, I can say they have been positively life altering in unexpected ways. As if the fear of contracting Covid wasn’t enough, I lost my Dad barely a month into quarantine. His only daughter (parents divorced when I was 2), I navigated the […]
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Lockdown Lemonade #16 by deb Ewing
Don’t Come Over My parents locked down before the nation did. “Don’t come over,” my sweet momma said. That was in February, just before her birthday. By the end of March, I could feel the encroachment of COVID across the nation; I watched the news carefully to see if I’d have to cancel travel plans […]
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The Key to Going Global: Never Leaving Home I just checked our battered old 2019 wall calendar: that year, I played 174 gigs. Many Petty Chavez shows, of course, but also Irish bar gigs, fiddle band shows, events with our five piece British Invasion cover band, acoustic duo gigs, solo shows, etc. I even played […]
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Creativity Rechanneled For the past several years, I’ve had a love-hate relationship with music. Since I was five, I’ve given it my heart. I’ve poured my soul into writing narrative story songs for 20 years, winning several awards and producing two CDs, but with little else to show for it. In 2019, I was finally […]
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Lessons Taught By 2020 2020 was to be my biggest year yet, with the launch of two additional songwriter festivals in Italy and Ireland. Then Covid struck, and every project fell in slow succession like socially distant dominos… March 15-21 Tuscany Retreat & Festival CANCELLED. June 3-10 Idyllwild Retreat & Festival CANCELLED. August 24-30 Copenhagen […]
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A special Thanksgiving Edition of Lockdown Lemonade…
A special Thanksgiving Edition of Lockdown Lemonade… After 9 years of being homefree, I am grateful to finally have my own roof over my head again surrounded by my things here in my apartment in Oakland, CA. By divine grace, this place became available right when I really needed it after the shelter-in-place order and […]
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I have never been so grateful for my iPhone, Steve Jobs and Zoom Before the lockdown, it seemed my family and I only got together once a year on the beach in Sarasota. In March when the lockdown hit, we all started meeting on zoom. And I mean all, from my immediate family, Mom, Dad, […]
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The Spare Room It sat there, unnoticed and taken for granted since the renovation relegated it to pass-through territory. It wasn’t a destination anymore, just a glorified hallway. Until a small miracle happened. I remember what the little room was like when we first saw the house, full of electronic equipment that didn’t match its old-world […]
Read moreMore TagLockdown Lemonade #3- My Lockdown Experience by Tracy Newman
My Lockdown Experience At the beginning of the COVID 19 lockdown, I assumed I would write a lot of songs, learn new guitar licks, practice, finish my book, clean and organize my house, etc. Instead, I stopped doing pretty much everything. I lost all motivation. Now, what is it, 8 months into this? Well, in […]
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