How to bring music to your homeschool pod + new song preview!

Click to hear a first master of a NEW SONG! It's called "18 Months Later," and I wrote it during that odd waiting period when my mom was living long past her prognosis. I'd already turned down a leading role in a National Touring Broadway show because she was supposed to be dying ... but then she lived ... so how long can people live with life-on-hold? Anyway, sounds oddly familiar to pandemic-living, when we can't make plans. Have a listen to the preview (it is not a final master, but the song is there, available to my wonderful, loyal blog-readers!).

It was created by Patrons -- the reason I can pandemicly-record (which is shockingly expensive, even in the era of Garageband!!).

Now let's discuss homeschooling pods.

I'm hesitant to commit to homeschooling other people's children because part of why I need to do it this year is more to do with freedom of schedule than pandemic. I'd been leaning towards homeschooling for years because the public school schedule does NOT jive with the performance schedule of a singer-songwriter like me. 

Pandemic has changed things a lot. I'm grateful to be able to keep my kids home without much collateral damage, but I'm having horrible feelings of guilt (as usual) about community. I want to find a way to go around from neighborhood to neighborhood offering FREE performances to other kids who are homeschooling this year not by choice.

Anyone out there care to set up OUTDOOR shows for your NTI/neighborhood pod? I don't want to live in a bubble, and I don't want my community to be the only one that benefits from my LOVE of teaching and my ability to MariaVonTrapp a pod of kids.

Also, what is the proper term for a "pod of neighborhood kids?" Like, a murder of ravens, a pride of lions ... hmmm maybe it's called a "privilege." 

LOVE to you.

Seriously, someone please become the neighborhood-tour-booking person. I miss singing at schools. Let me sing in your yard. Masked. From very far away.

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