I’m presenting a lunchtime concert today for the National Association of Pastoral Musicians. Enjoy!
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Cover Reveal and Award Nomination!
It’s been a crazy few months for me, both in real life and in my writing life. I’ve been working on a major revision of my newest novel in response to agent feedback. This is the first time I’ve tried to do such a thing on a tight turnaround and now I understand the stress…
Read MoreA Blast From The Past, viewed through new eyes
This weekend, exhausted, while our kids were well occupied with their screen time, Christian and I were lying across our bed and hanging out when Christian ran across this video on Facebook: I haven’t thought about “We Are The World” in years, and I don’t think I ever saw this video. It was so interesting…
Read MoreThe Couple That Plays Together…
I’ve heard people say that wallpapering is a test of a marriage. I think they should try critiquing each other’s creative work. Christian has always been my earliest set of eyes on a piece of music, and unlike most people, he’s never felt inhibited about telling me exactly what’s wrong with it. In the early…
Read MoreRest and InSpiration
I came downstairs after my shower yesterday—midmorning, post-workout—to find Michael lying on the couch, half-covered up by a throw and staring out at nothing. I had intended to take him to the basement and let him play with the multitude of toys there while I worked at the piano on edits for the last piece…
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Growing Up Musical
When kids grow up with musical parents…especially ones who lead a choir (“conduct” might be a wee bit too glamorous a word for either of us)…you get this… …and you get this… …which leads, most adorably to all, to a 4-year-old who says seriously, “Mom, look at my invisible trombone!” Which, when he is interrupted in playing to…
Read MoreBeing part of something bigger than me (reflections on music)
Occasionally, someone asks me when I’m going to record an album. I always hesitate to answer, because even though I know I’m not a good enough singer to record an album, it seems kind of…ungracious…to contradict people who obviously think otherwise. But there’s another reaction that I never quite know how to explain—a deep, visceral…
Read MoreMusic Memory
The spring of 1994 was a rough semester for me. It was my sophomore year in college, and in the fall semester, due to the convergence of a roommate who studied late into the night with the light on (causing me to sleep with my arms over my eyes, which made my neck & shoulder…
Read MoreWhat’s Up With My Babies This Week (a 7QT post)
1: Horse or Purple Unicorn Almost every day, Julianna’s bus driver has a story to share about my daughter when I come to get her off the bus. Wednesday of this week, on the heels of Julianna’s first horseback riding lesson of the year, the story was this: “Julianna told us that she rode a…
Read MoreI Need Your Help!
Most of the time, I blog to inspire, to make you think or smile. Most of the time, I’m here to give to you. But today, I need your help. I’m starting down a new path this spring. At the request and under the direction of two flute-teacher friends, I have written a set of…
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Kathleen M. Basi 