Hello all,

It’s about time for a post-CD release, post-move to LA update. It’s raining here in Koreatown. I’ve spent the day writing a new song and sitting in Mak cafe performing open heart surgery on the music Facebook page. Learning how to create my own page tabs and utilize more web measurement tools is also helpful for my job at the non-profit during the day. I really love being a message crafter. I can’t think of anything I’d rather be doing than delivering a striking message in a brief and profound way.

It’s hard being without my husband/drummer here. Finding buddies for hikes, brews and concerts is challenging. Granted, I keep going to opera events and there are only a handful of people my age who LOVE opera as much as I do. Even an opera nay-sayer would have been impressed with hearing Placido Domingo for free yesterday! Perhaps the interweaving string parts of the songs I heard helped me to write a song this morning. I’ll show it to you soon. It has something to do with validating a life that takes many turns. My generation seems to switch and lose jobs, change careers and towns and relationships and alter just about everything constantly. Do we ever get used to that incredible lack of stability?

On a different note, musicians are very easy to come by here. They are the best friends to make (no surprise given my open mic friends from Berkeley). I have found many kindred souls who seek to give more meaning to this life with their melodies. They have helped me discover venues like Genghis Cohen, Room 5, the Hotel Cafe, Left Coast Wine Bar and a couple others that are starting to blur together.

My Koreatown apartment is in the middle of these venues, my job downtown, family in Silverlake- everything. It’s 8 minutes from everywhere I want to be. If I could only read Korean, I’d have an easier chance at choosing stores and restaurants to take a chance on though in this neighborhood. I did taste real ramen for the first time, and it’s really worth traveling to! The apartment is the largest I’ve ever had (a one bedroom is sadly the largest space I’ve ever rented), and it feels so spacious and empty. Just a folding table, three folding chairs and an air mattress to my name in there. Thank life for family! That’s where the folding table and chairs came from.

I heard the majority of Americans believe in angels. I don’t in a Deist sense. I think my family in LA are real angels; the kind that ask to be of help at every turn, the kind who always invite and always give, who love unquestioningly and create a landing place. I want the whole world to have a landing place. I want the whole world to feel as loved as I do when I venture to a new place and know no one. I want everyone to have this gift.

I am preparing my two new songs for a practice this Wednesday at the West Coast Songwriter’s event and then for my show at the Left Coast Wine Bar November 16th at 8:30pm. Click here to go to that Facebook event. I hope to help a couple folks feel more alive. I went to a show there recently and heard Aiyana Cadwell and Samantha Tart. That made me feel more alive. There is still great heat in the sky and still great passion in the world. More to come.