Reflections on Children, Music and Being Fully Alive
Dedicated to Damaris Pfeiffer-Böhme and all those that mother mothers. It's Mother's Day in Germany, and for the first time in 17 years I get to spend it with my mum. Not because I'm a wonderful daughter who has just jetted over to Germany to surprise her with a visit and whisk her off on… Continue reading Mum
Rest... if there's one thing that's hard to come by in our busy culture it's this. It smacks of laziness, lack of productivity, skiving. If you're like me, you've got an internal slave driver that kicks in the moment you sit down to enumerate all the undone tasks, all the ways in which you could,… Continue reading Rest
Breathing in the midst of chaos I’m standing in the kitchen holding my crying 2 ½ year old. Sobs are bubbling up from deep down, racking her little body and I can feel her heart galloping along at breakneck speed. But she’s letting me hold her, which is good. Better than the last twenty minutes,… Continue reading Tantrum
"Music for Life" is our motto at the Len Tyler Music School. Read on to find out what first got me passionate about teaching here and what drives our ongoing quest to be the best we can for the benefit of the children that come to us. I first came across the Len Tyler Music… Continue reading “Music for Life” means Music for Everyone
I wrote this article for the Mother Magazine in 2015, while volunteering for Home Start the year before my youngest was born. It never made it to the printing press for one reason or another so I'm publishing it here. The time I spent with my Home Start family was so worth it! A few… Continue reading Building Community – Home Start-Style
Hi there, thank you for joining me on my new blog! It's been in the pipeline for quite some time and I've finally decided to give it a go and kick off. I'm a bit of a mish-mash, a work-in-progress, lots of different strands, all being woven together into a pattern that I don't understand… Continue reading The Journey Begins
Weaving Rainbows 