Looks like I will be learning ten Elvis songs this month which means more ukulele videos of me embarrassing myself! If you want to watch me, I will probably post to X or my ukulele instagram If you want to join me, you can follow my ukulele teacher on YouTube!

I really enjoy these challenges because it forces me to play every day, but I also hate them because it forces me to play every day. In the end, I know it’s good for me but sometimes…sometimes, the stress of learning a song and then trying to record without looking like I am haggard af is not fun.

I would also love to remind everyone that registration opens for my workshop on September 1 (which is today for me but probably not for my North American friends, and maybe the UK too?). Join me and let’s be creative together!!

Finally, I would like to leave you with a little something that has been making me really depressed. If you don’t want to keep reading, then you can stop here. Sending light and love and creativity!

For those who have stayed…. as you know I struggle with imposter syndrome as I know most of us do. Being a writer or creator is hard and sometimes not very fulfilling work. It makes it even harder when you have been struggling for years to get your work out there and you see other writers who write similarly to you get agented and their short story collections published all over the world and you wonder why… why not me… this week has been especially difficult and there are moments when I want to say eff all of this bs and stop torturing myself. I want to celebrate this writer because they are doing the thing that I have been struggling to do… getting our stories to a wider audience. I just wish it had been me. I know this is feeling is stupid and not productive but sometimes I have to feel this so that I can get to the other side of it and keep doing what I am doing and hoping one day I will also be that person who is agented with a book published by a big trad publisher, or offered a prestigious award, or an awesome fellowship. All I can do is just keep trying to be the best me and just keep writing.

Thank you for staying and reading these words. I appreciate you. As always, sending light, love, and creativity!