Category: music

  There’s a “happiness study” that a person’s quality of life won’t improve past earning $83,000 dollars per year. That figure is the benchmark for contentment.  Anything more than that, and said person’s expenses and circumstances expand, and therefore, the earning figure must also increase as one’s overhead, stress level & seemingly uncontrollable “enough is…

It was an interesting road into the “producer’s” chair for me & Saucy Monky.  AKA the “queen’s chair” as I like to call it. The climate in the early 2000’s was definitely pre-DIY. Labels were thriving and people were still holding out for juicy record deals. I was one of the first indie girls to…

This is my first blog published on Amnplify – the Austrian Musicians Network.  Please join me on this exciting new journey!  – cynthia I am in love with Australians.  You can blame Bali.  You can blame AA.  You can blame Ubud.  You can blame Amnplify. You can blame one of my dear Irish friends.  You…

It seems with every blessing, there’s a counter lesson. For instance, yesterday I discovered someone pilfered my cash stash for New Zealand. I came abroad armed with many currencies. I’ve since learned that having less is more – even when it comes to travel money. I was feeling semi-violated, but also in awe of how…

I’ve been down for the count the last four or five days with a Balinese cold strain that has me semi bedridden. I’m on my way to an Esalon trained healer. As I walk up her street, there are chickens walking around and crowing. Talk about free range. The energy in Ubud is very high…

The idea about traveling to Australia to play some shows popped up in an unexpected way. Driving home from a retreat weekend, my girlfriend and I were discussing the kind of lives we really want to lead. That dream in the back of my mind about visiting SE Asia, and traveling to exotic places I’ve…