• Jane’s Garage

    I’ve got a new passion…teaching people how to record a song.  A GarageBand how to.  I call it Jane’s Garage.  It’s especially for people who don’t speak geek.  Who don’t want to wade through tutorials. Who like for people to show them how easy it is to create a home recording.  Check out my teaching page for all the [...]

    5.18.2012
  • Living a Facebook Free Life

    Is it really that fun to be “catching up” with long lost friends from high school, spying on ex’s, scrolling through mundane musings…posting personal info on somebody else’s bulletin board….instead of….?  Two weeks ago it suddenly occurred to me … I’m missing real life. Yesterday: Sunday brunch with 3 real-life friends (checked out the new [...]

    4.23.2012
  • Taking the Leap

    The other day at Barton Springs swimming pool a little boy stood at the edge of the diving board.  Right at first, the small crowd at that end of the pool was urging him to jump! But little by little, like a ripple, heads farther and farther down the pool, and all along the sidelines, [...]

    7.31.2011
  • Hermonicas

    Who knew there were so many women harmonica players?  San Francisco DJ Norman Davis took it upon himself to see how many of us he could find around the world, and then he built a website around the idea, dedicated to Big Mama Thornton. Check it out! http://hermonicas.com/hermonicas.htm If you look on this page: http://hermonicas.com/otherplayers.htm [...]

    7.25.2011
  • Free Download

    I thought this song was lost forever…but tonight I found the CD in the back of a drawer.  Bare bones… a little Dylan style harp… it’s up on ReverbNation for free – Break It Down    

    7.16.2011
  • The new video of “I Love Taxicabs at Night” is up!

    Thank you to all the amazing collaborators on the new video, now on YouTube. Filmed in Austin and New York “I Love Taxicabs at Night” fuses urban and mountain.  The appalachian dulcimer meets city streets, urban dance, and graffiti art – with taxi still shots by friends and fans from around the world. I Love Taxicabs [...]

    7.9.2011