The River Between

A letter from a quiet November night Dear friend, The other night, I sat down at the piano for the first time in far too long. Not to rehearse. Not to perform. Just to be inside the music again. I used to play almost every day when I was still teaching. Back then, music wrapped itself around my entire world—classrooms humming with harmony, laughter echoing through the halls, my hands always reaching for the keys, my voice blending with others. I lived in sound. It held me ste

A raw, honest reflection on burnout, chronic illness, parenting differences, and the painful space between where you are and where you hope to be. This episode explores the emotional “in-between” — the ache of trying, the weight of being unseen, and the quiet resilience of holding onto a future that still feels out of reach.

Memories are funny things. If you’ve seen the first episode of A Fire That Sings, you heard how The Greatest Love of All by Whitney Houston—discovered in third‑grade chorus—became my anthem, my promise, my home. 🎵 “Because the greatest love of all / Is happening to me / I found the greatest love of all inside of me.”  But there’s another song, a companion on that journey: One Moment in Time by Whitney Houston. I’m not entirely sure which came first in my memory—but both arri