I have re-discovered music in my middle age, from a hiatus of 20 years when I was just too busy and physically active to pursue creating it myself. Still, music has always been a soundtrack to my life, and I can't imagine life without it. When I was a girl I spent every summer on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina and Virginia and loved to listen to the old men on courthouse squares in the mountains play bluegrass and fiddle tunes. This mountain music is what I turn to when I most need nurturing. Since then, I have gained more life experiences and now I have things to write about. My songs are deeply personal, either about my own experiences or about people that have touched my life in some way.