Alexa Blog

I am so ever grateful for my parent's encouragement to persue music.  Many years have past since my school days and music is very much a part of my life. 

Growing up in a small Village .... yes, our town was not a city, but a village.  The name of the town?  The Village of Alpha.  We had a school, a post office, a small grocery store and a local bar that was called, The Villiage Inn.  My father was one of the favorite patrons and so I got to spend time in a bar at an early age.  Perhaps that is why I don't drink.  Well, that isn't exactly correct...I do have a drink now and then...I guess I will have had about five to seven drinks in a one year time frame.  That would be one beer, two glasses of wine, a gin and tonic and a few odds and ends! 

Back to music.  I started on the trumpet and still play to this day.  I play at our Church on Saturday evening.  Along the way I learned to play the keyboard, a xaphnoon, a pennywhistle, and a few other instruments.  I love to play jazz and I'm really just learning.  I love music theory, too.

If you have kids, encourage them to play even if they fight it.  I believe it is one of the best things you can do for your children.

In my next blog, I will give you the formula for living on less than $1,000 per day and I mean a day!