Hello (again) World! Reflecting on 1 year of blogging
On this day in 2010 (or close enough to it, the actual post was dated 12/20, but didn’t show up properly until 12/21) a little blog called Music Moves entered the world and its author has been forever...
View ArticleThe Allied Health Juggling Act
Hello and Happy New Year! I hope all of you readers have enjoyed a restful Holiday Break – I myself spent some much needed quiet time at home, as well as valuable time with family and dear friends to...
View ArticleSharing The Musical Love
There are many connotations that come when the words “sharing” and “music,” are used in close proximity, many of them negative. If any of you have been following the SOPA debate (and I’m sure you all...
View ArticleLoopy Stanley WORLD Premiere 2012!
I am SO excited for today’s post I’m just going to cut to the chase here – Loopy Stanley is finished! Over the past month and a half, Music Therapists from around the country have inquired in response...
View ArticleRumor Has It…
…It’s been a while, hasn’t it? That much is definitely true! Over the last two weeks, I’ve been working on some life projects that have made me put blogging on the backburner for a little while, but...
View ArticleDefining Music Therapy (con’t)…within Deaf Culture
The other day I was introduced to video of a Deaf Rapper, who goes by the name of Signmark, performing at NYU (you can find the video here). In the video, a young Music Therapy student says something...
View ArticleDefining Music Therapy… in Residential Facilities
There’s been a lot going on in the schools I serve lately – we’re hurtling towards the end of the academic year at the speed of light, it seems, and my kids at the ND School for the Blind and the ND...
View ArticleDefining Music Therapy…in Community Centers
Wow, did the month of May fly! It’s been a long silent month here on the blog itself, but as those of you who follow me on Twitter I’m sure have noticed, it hasn’t been so long or silent in the life...
View ArticleMusic as a Third Language
Hello and Happy July! Hard to believe our last post was all the way at the end of MAY – quite the schedule I’ve been under lately, but so much fun information to share! As I type this, we’re...
View ArticleLessons in Vocal Care (from an MT on Vocal Rest)
As promised last post, we’re going to take a look this week at an experience I’ve embarked on many a time before due to my personal intuition, but never before been medically mandated to do until 3...
View ArticleHip Hip Hooray! I Sang Today! Plus 5 other things I haven’t been able to do...
Well folks, the verdict is in and I can sing again! As you may remember from my last post I was placed on mandatory vocal rest by my doctors 8 weeks ago. In fact it’s been a month since that last post...
View ArticleMusic for Academic Enrichment
One, two, buckle my shoe… Sound familiar? This little nursery rhyme has been the center of a new unit of mine at both the School for the Deaf in North Dakota and our upcoming programming week at the...
View ArticleTransitioning through Music
Another busy month is underway for this Music Therapist, culminating (already! Seems so early this year) in the American Music Therapy Association’s National Conference in Chicago Oct 11-14. I’ll be...
View ArticleAMTA 12 Post Conference Recap
It’s hard to believe more than a week has already passed since I presented at my first ever national conference for the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) in St. Charles, Illinois. AMTA always...
View ArticleThe Power of Silence
It’s a quiet day here at home – I’ve officially caught the annual Fall bug going around and am sitting on my couch with tea on one side of me and oatmeal on the other. Luckily I had a “mental health...
View ArticleSurviving Power Struggles
“It’s the most _________ time of the year!” Many of us think of the song containing the above phrase and insert the word “wonderful” in the blanks. But the holidays are so much more than that – and...
View ArticleNew Year, Old Habits
Hello and Happy New Year! I hope that you and yours had a wonderful holiday. I myself enjoyed a very busy lead-in to mine, as evidenced by my infrequent posts here of late, but now that I’ve solidly...
View ArticleLoopy Stanley 2013 – we want YOU!
Hello and welcome February! It is a blustery one here in North Dakota. As I type I am enjoying an impromptu Snow Day after we got a healthy dumping of snow and wind, enough to close down two major...
View ArticleWhere in the World has Natasha been this Summer?
Good news everyone! Music Moves is back! As I mentioned in my last blog post, this summer has shaped up to be quite the busy one – the two months of May and June have just flown by and it occurs to me...
View ArticleThe Nanny McPhee Effect
“There is something you should understand about the way I work. When you need me but do not want me, then I must stay. When you want me but no longer need me, then I have to go. It’s rather sad,...
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