In a recent post, I wrote about the constant deadlines of a musician — well, this musician, anyway, where there was always a service or concert to practice for. Even when I retired from my church job and no longer had the constant obligation to play organ voluntaries, hymns and to accompany choral music every… Read More Music is fun?
After two abdominal surgeries and a combined total of 23 days in the hospital, my husband Carl Crosier has returned home to hospice care. We are both discovering what that means — what the possibilities, and what the limitations are. It took two hours to meet with our assigned hospice nurse, Stacy, to go through… Read More Home, James!
After the ALCM conference concluded with an Itinerarium (Sending) service, we spent the entire next day driving to Seattle and back (a round trip of around 400 miles) while Carl took care of some of unexpected executor responsibilities for Peter Hallock. Since then we moved out of the Radisson Hotel and have been staying with former… Read More A little bit of Hawaii in Portland
It’s December 2012, and I am beginning my last month as organist of the Lutheran Church of Honolulu. A number of people have asked me how I am feeling, and quite honestly, I have answered “with mixed emotions.” You may recall that in Carl Crosier’s last month as Cantor, we started ticking off the “lasts”… Read More The last month