Scrambled Dregs ~~~~~~~ tidbits on life, food, faith, and writing.

This violin thing has been going on for two years. TWO YEARS. Granted, there's been progress, lots of it. But part of me feels like I ...

 In hind sight, if I had known it would take two long years of fiddling around with my fiddle before I ever felt confident to play in chur...

I spent several hours in a seminar on rewiring your brain on Saturday.  Fascinating.  The speaker gave a word picture. At birth our br...

First day of NaNoWriMo. I didn't post anything yesterday because it was one of those days. Meeting myself coming and going. Have I me...

Tiger Eye Focus. How does that look with the violin? Clearly, I'm not going to be running stairs and punching sides of beef. For vio...

My violin "lesson" of the week focused on developing a tiger's eye. I'm at the point when I need to make a level of commit...

My goal for Thursday's violin lesson was to just get through one of my songs.  I hadn't pulled that off yet, well, a real song, Tw...

Around Thanksgiving I began my violin journey.  I remembered precious little from my short violin career nearly four decades ago. I knew t...

I've now been taught the four strings of my violin and finger placements for a total of 16 notes.  I "know" how to slur, tie...