| New vantage point... 7/15/08 Someone remarked on a blog that it is time for me to spread my wings... that I have. Let's start with the music...
I began my venture into the music world fresh and full or hope. I met MANY musicians and songwriters and immersed myself in a world of my favorite music and friends. I realized two major things, I wasn't willing to work 12 hour days for the promise of little in return and also... I wasn't willing to be broke forever. That being said, I love to sing. Anyone who knows me, knows that that is something that will never change in me. I will always sing.. I want to sing because I LOVE it... I don't want to develop distain for the one thing in life that was more mine than anything I had ever loved in life. My voice was something I shared with people that meant the world to me. I am not sure that that is what I want to turn into a job. SO. I sign every single day.. not professionally. This taught me something that I REALLY needed to learn more than I ever needed to sing in public.
I learned that I am really good at a large list of things, some of which will make me more that enough money.
I have learned that I am a great dancer, I can take a wickedly artistic and dynamic photograph and I am highly inventive. The inventive part is still under way and could make me a large enough sum of money that I would realize many of my dreams.
I am not a typical singer. It is a passion for me. Personal. I am not looking for fame with it.. Not right now... It is mine. The one thing that I will always have. I want to make money... at something else. I have found... I have a many things to choose from. While I was immersing myself in music, musicians and friends, I learned lindy-hop, balboa, shag, charleston, swing, tandem charleston, triple-step swing, jitterbug and slow partner dancing (blues style). I learned them well enough to begin teaching with Milwaukee's most talented and educated dancer. She offered me a position teaching with her. This has been something that has made me happier that I can even tell you. Along with shedding emotional weight and physical weight, I am in better shape and I get to teach a room full of 80-100 people who love to dance. I share the music that I love most with these people. I DJ as well and pick the cream of the crop to share and dance to. I have the pleasure of dancing several days a week, hold dances several times a month and make my living doing it.
The most interesting thing that I have begun recently that is overtaking my spare moments... is my love of photography. I began with a private lesson with a local artist that has been professional for at least the last 15 years. In one hour, he showed my things on my camera, settings, cropping and options that will change the shape of my photography from here on out.
I have been putting ideas into the universe and realizing them with unbelievable turn around time. I met a professional photographer that took the photos for Seinfeld, Baywatch, Summerfest and work for Playboy. He is from LA and has many many more famous credits to his name. He told me of a galley where he shows his work and it lead me to a man who introduced me to COPA. This is a local photography artists guild in Milwaukee. People from all areas and levels meet to talk about and work on photography.. each other's and their own. I have two books completed and I am beginning to sell... This is the newest and most exciting of my directions.. | 
