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A Zest for Life: Anne Marie Schlekeway’s True Voice Found After Loss of Speech

A Zest for Life: Anne Marie Schlekeway’s True Voice Found After Loss of Speech
Allow me to introduce you to Anne Marie Schlekeway, the first of many inspiring and Zesty types I plan to share with you. You can thank me later for this one. I promise you that taking the time to watch her presentation will give you a whole new Alice-in-Wonderland door to unleashing your own happiness and...

Expose Yourself: Seeing Green is Good for the Mind and the Soul

Expose Yourself: Seeing Green is Good for the Mind and the Soul
Yesterday morning, this was the scene outside my studio office window: treetops popping with electric green leafage, the weathered fence enclosing my back yard, the outbuildings beyond belonging to two different neighbors, the sun expertly illuminating the redbud tree so that it almost looks as if its...

Scribble Singing

Scribble Singing
Scribble singing:  An ode to transitory thrills, ephemeral beauty and the fleeting nature of life I don’t know about you, but sometimes I’m a little prone to wanting to hang onto things as they are. That might come as a surprise to some who know me.  “You?” I can imagine them saying, hands on...

Coco Before Chanel: The Top 10 Zesty Artista Takeaways

Coco Before Chanel: The Top 10 Zesty Artista Takeaways
Have you seen Coco Before Chanel yet? I finally got my chance this week, happy as a clam at high tide in the south of France at the prospect of going to a movie with one of my daughters, and even more delighted to be doing so in a theatre that serves vinho verde. I loved Audrey Tautou in Amelie, figured...

Time to Get Your Zesty On: The Power of Committing

Time to Get Your Zesty On: The Power of Committing
O, the dithering. The wondering. The choir in my head singing yeah-buts and what-ifs in four-part harmony.  Shall I hum a few bars for you?  I’ll bet you know it:  “Don’t have enough time for this…Don’t have enough money…Don’t have it all figured out…My ideas are crummy….” And on it...