This is just a quick post to shed some light on what has transpired in my life over the last (almost 2 years). By most peoples standards of what constitutes a trial, this is extremely tame. For me however, it is an experience that has deeply affected me, and left me a changed person. A person, I am pleased to say, that is looking forward with excitement to what God lays before me next.

I want to say thank you to all of the people who contacted me to share their concern.

To save you a really long and drawn out story, all I am going to say is that something happened almost 2 years ago that woke me out of a place I had been for the entirety of my career prior to that point. That place was the place where a raging workaholic had been dwelling. One of the things that I realized, playing back the years through my head, was that at many points people close to me (my amazing wife, friends, family) were telling me that I had no notion of balance. In that place, I had convinced myself that I knew what balance was and that I was somehow achieving it. I was not able to hear them, or even reflect on my own work habits. The wisdom of their advice was drowned out by my own relentless ambition. A pursuit that now I see blinded me to the reality of how I was living my life. I understood the value of balance, and that people should focus on work when it's time to focus on work, and focus on family when it was time to focus on family. I would often speak to people about this as I believed I had it figured out. The reality is that my focus was first and foremost on that of my career.

To wake up one day and decide to make a conscious change to cut out a part of my personality that has been with me for the last 8 years (I have worked as a software developer since 2000) is something that caused a large ripple effect. It was difficult. Part of the difficulty, was the cold-turkey aspect of how I changed my behavior. It's a hard pill to swallow, when you think you have been living a certain way and you are hit with he harsh realization that you were just kidding yourself. I just kept replaying in my head the crappy decisions I had made. The amount of time I had lost with family and friends. I became my own worst enemy for a while there.

I am sure that when people read my last post, many were expecting something like me talking about losing a family member, or the realization of some awful illness. Those things are devastating and my heart goes out to anyone who is experiencing either of those right now. Each situation, and event affects people differently. This last year and a half proved to be quite challenging for me personally. I had to reinvent myself and figure out who I was in this new mindset. To that end, it has also been one of the most rewarding years of my life from a pure family and personal perspective.

An amazing friend told me a couple of weeks ago (I'm paraphrasing as I can't remember exactly): "When you pray to God for wisdom, prepare for the wisdom to come in the form of a painful, and challenging lesson"!! The lesson has been humbling, painful, and ultimately life-changing.

Going forward I want to use the programming skills I have to share and teach people. I also want to make sure that I take opportunities to share this story with other people who may be able to receive it in a way that can be practical for them.

Yours Humbled,

Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo

Develop With Passion

My amazingly talented sister just released a new single on itunes. It is titled "Wherever you are".\

A great thing about this single (aside for the fact that it is an awesome song) is that proceeds from the single will go toward the girls leadership institute in the US.

Check out the song and purchase it to support this great cause!

http://itunes.apple.com/album/wherever-you-are/id341707153

As people who have been following my tweets today (jpboodhoo), they can see that I am back and now committed to updating people on my status as well as tweeting regularly throughout the day. While I have been in a very heads down mode for the last little while, I have also fell out of contact with people I use to converse with regularly. In an attempt to restart the conversation, I am actually excited about being able to use twitter to do some out of band, and occasionally direct, messaging with people.

Have not given people much of an update since we got back from our big 6 month trip. Lots of big changes have happened in the world of the Boodhoo’s. Since the end of November we have been living in my parents basement with my sister, her husband and their 3 kids. Picture 4 adults and 7 kids running around in the same house!! My poor parents. They have been extremely gracious and very giving of their time and space.

Since our house in Calgary is being rented, with future plans to keep it as a rental, we are in the process of searching for a house. Unfortunately, because I was a bit lax on business returns etc, we currently do not qualify for a mortgage!! So we are getting very creative in house hunting right now. We have found a house that we would love to get into. It is an acreage. Anyone who knows me well, knows that I have always been a hardcore city kid. One of my wife’s dreams has always been to raise the kids out on an acreage. She has been so amazing and instrumental in helping me achieve my dreams that I decided to put aside my love of city living and start looking at acreages. Then a funny thing happened. Once I saw a couple of acreages and got to spend a significant amount of time on some of them, my heart changed and I now find myself in the spot of not ever wanting to live in the crowded city again!! So moving forward we know that we are going to live on an acreage!!

We are also not living in Calgary anymore. We are moving back to Medicine Hat. I never thought I would move back to “the Hat”, but here we are, back where I met my wife 16 years ago now!!! Both grandparents live here, so Aaron and I have been able to enjoy having a lot more date nights than we have for the past couple of years. We are not concerned about not being in the big city. I am using it as a pressure point for forcing me to get a couple of startups off the ground. The first one will be launching at the end of April, pretty exciting. I am working on it with a couple of other people who already have an established product!! Even in the current economy, I could get scared and take the “safe” route of jumping back into the consulting market, but I know I will kick myself if I don’t give it a shot. I have a bunch of friends with great ideas and we are going to try to get a couple of startups off the group by the end of the year. I would much rather look back on this year with the knowledge that I tried vs looking back with regret for not trying. Better to try,fail, learn and grow that not try at all.

Another significant change for us is that we are not home schooling this year. Since our world is a little upside down right now, we have the kids enrolled in a great (small) Christian School. The class sizes are excellent and they are having a blast. It is definitely a change from home schooling, but it is a great experience for them.

We got the kids enrolled in swimming at the beginning of January. My wife grew up swimming, and if you ever saw our kids swim, you would see that they got their amazing swimming ability from her. The only one not swimming right now is Elijah, and that is cause he is too young to be enrolled in the class, otherwise he is more than capable of being in there!! It truly is amazing to watch their phenomenal progress in just the span of a month. They were already amazing swimmers before, but swimming against others has definitely raised their game!!

On the personal training front (gym training) I feel in the best shape I have ever been in, praise the Lord!! Really got back into it (intensely) at the beginning of January. I’ll talk about my routine in another post but for now here are some cool stats:

• Height – 5’5”
• Weight – 127 lbs
• Waist Size – 28 inches
• Resting Heart Rate – 56 BMP
• Body Fat Percentage – 8%
• Number of days at the gym per week (5)
• Average training session length 1hr 30 min
• Water consumed in a day – 2 –3 litres
• Meals consumed a day – 6

Watching the kids in the pool has really triggered me to want to learn how to swim well. I have never been a very good swimmer. When I was 8 years old I drowned and was resuscitated by the pool lifeguard. The fear of that event kept me out of the pool for a couple of years. Now that my wife and I workout together at the gym, the next couple of weeks I am going to be switching my workout routine to include a heavy swimming component. She is going to teach me. Keep tuned to my tweets (jpboodhoo) as I am sure I will be sharing lots of blurbs over the next little while!!

On the coding front, lots of exciting stuff is going on. Not a lot I can share yet, but that time will come!!

Develop With Passion!!

Our feet are finally back on Canadian soil. The Lord blessed us with a solid vehicle, great road conditions, and amazing travellers!! We are staying with family for a week until we can sort out where we are going to live (it will be in Calgary).

Just to give you an idea of the kind of travel time we put in over the last 5 months, here is a rough breakdown:

Calgary,AB - Vancouver,BC - 972km (about 10 hours 46 minutes)

Vancouver,BC - Astoria,OR - 517km (about 5 hours 29 minutes)

Astoria,OR - Austin,TX - 3859km (about 1 day 11 hours)

Austin,TX - Panama City Beach,FL - 1324km (about 13 hours 5 minutes)

Panama City Beach,FL - Orlando,FL - 623km (about 6 hours 8 minutes)

Orlando,FL - Dominican Republic (about 4 hours by plane)

Dominican Republic - Orlando,FL (about 4 hours by plane)

Orlando,FL - London,UK - (about 9 hours by plane)

London,UK - Warwick,UK - 158km (about 1 hour 52 minutes)

Warwick,UK - London,UK - 158km (about 1 hour 52 minutes)

London,UK - Broadstairs,UK - 127km (about 1 hour 58 minutes)

Broadstairs,UK - Dover,UK - 34.9km (about 43 minutes)

Broadstairs,UK - Calais,FR - 47.1km (about 1 hour 24 minutes - by ferry)

Calais,FR - Duesseldorf,GER - 403km (about 3 hours 42 minutes)

Duesseldorf,GER - Bonn,GER - 72.6km (about 52 minutes)

Bonn,GER - Munich,GER - 559km (about 5 hours)

Munich,GER - Las Vegas,NV (about 14 hours by plane)

Las Vegas,NV - Orlando,FL - 3877km (about 5 hours by plane)

Orlando,FL - Daytona Beach,FL - 83.5lm (about 54 minutes)

Orlando,FL - Stamford,CT - 1707km (about 16 hours 52 minutes)

Stamford,CT - Philadelphia,PA - 223km (about 2 hours 33 minutes)

Philadelphia,PA - Sandusky,OH - 774km (about 8 hours 2 minutes)

Sandusky,OH - Baraboo,WI - 779km (about 7 hours 58 minutes)

Baraboo,WI - Minot, N Dakota - 1168km (about 11 hours 48 minutes)

Minot, N Dakota - Medicine Hat, AB - 822km (about 8 hours 46 minutes)

All in all, an amazing trip!!!

After almost a half year away from home, the traveling Boodhoo wagon is making its way back to Calgary. Contrary to popular belief, we did not setup shop in Austin. We have unfinished business to attend to in Calgary, and will be staying there until the end of April. At that time we will be heading off on the road again for more travels.

I have been making note of our journey and destinations this past year and will blog a quick summary post of our travels next week once we arrive back in Canada!!

It has been a truly amazing journey for our family, and we truly feel blessed to have been able to have the opportunity to undertake these travels, meet so many amazing people, and see so many amazing things.

God Is Good!!

This past Sunday (November 9th), my wife and I celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary. We went for our first couples massage, spent 40 freezing minutes at the Orlando ice bar, and then had an great meal at an amazing restaurant named Texas de Brazil.

As we sat back to reflect on our last 12 years together and where we want to go together in the future I thought I would share some tips that can possibly help people who are walking down this awesome road:

• If you put God at the center of your marriage you will form a cord of 3 strands that will stand through the tests (and they will come!!)
• Show each other that you love one another, every day!!
• Pray together
• Dream big together
• Plan together
• Stop and think before you blurt out something you will regret in 10 seconds
• Be open and honest about your feelings, fears, and aspirations
• If you have kids, let them see how much you adore each other. Showing your kids that you are affectionate to your spouse will give them a healthy outlook on what marriage is about.
• Don’t be afraid to get upset at each other, but make sure you don’t let the sun go down on your anger

I am sure I could go on and on. Marriage is a blessing and one of the most amazing gifts that we can experience on this Earth.

What are some tips that you can share that help your marriage flow?

Love with Passion!!!

It has been a couple of weeks since the last update. And our first official mini-retirement is coming to a close.

In the last update we had just arrived in Orlando, Florida. This signaled the beginning of my official 1 month mini-retirement. The 2 weeks in Orlando were simple amazing. Both weeks consisted of lots park trekking. My family and I are particularly in love with Universal Studios. We much prefer it to DisneyWorld!! This was our second time to Orlando. The last time we came, even our oldest boys were not yet tall enough to ride many of the rides at Universal. It was a great surprise for them to be there this time and be able to go on all of the rides. It was a blast to ride the Dueling Dragons and Hulk with them!!

Our days for the first week in Orlando were long and action packed. Most evenings we would roll back into our hotel at 12:00AM or later!! The kids were loving being able to be awake with us until all hours!!

Our days for the second week were just as fun filled, we tried to dial down the pace a bit and spent much more time relaxing at the hotel pool and revisiting Universal Studios a lot!!

While at Orlando we managed to see the following parks:

• -Seaworld Aquatica - An Amazing Waterpark
• -Universal Studios - Both the Islands of Adventure and the Universal Parks
• -Disney's Animal Kingdom
• -Disney's Magic Kingdom
• -Disney's Epcot
• -Disney Quest (the longest 6 hours of my life!!)

My wife, my son Joshua, and I were also able to take in the amazing Cirque Du Soleil show called La Nouba. It was a truly amazing experience. We have made it our goal to now see a Cirque Du Soleil show in every city that it is offered.

For the first week of Orlando we had one set of good friends join us, and for the second week we had a different set of friends join us. It was great to be able to share that time with them.

We finished off the second week by taking in the show The Dark Knight. I was sure the movie could not live upto it's hype, but I was very wrong. The movie was simply amazing!!

We left Orlando on the 26th Of July and flew to the Dominican Republic. What a beautiful place. The first week of this visit was a working week for me as I was delivering a private training course to a local company. The second week in the Dominican consisted of putting in lots of Beach time, pool time, buffet time .... We definitely lost all sense of time!! It was truly a magical experience.

We flew back into Orlando last Saturday night and and were there until this past Tuesday. Our flight to the UK (gatwick) was scheduled to leave at 7:25PM, but it got delayed until 12:15AM!! Thankfully this gave us the opportunity to get our seating rearranged as originally they had the 6 of us split up all over the plane. We flew Virgin Atlantic and it was an absolutely amazing flight. Every person had their own TV in front of them with a wide range of free games and movies to choose from. The movies were awesome:

Kung Fu Panda
Drillbit Taylor
Gone Baby Gone
Lots of others (all free)

I had an opportunity to play a game of networked battleships with my oldest son!! It was a blast. All of the units on the plane were wired to talk to one another. It was truly an amazing flight and has reset the bar on what plane travel should be like!!

We arrived in London at 1:25PM on Wednesday where we headed straight for the Hilton Gatwick to crash for the rest of the day (neither my wife or I slept during the flight). We called it a night at 9:00PM. I woke up feeling like I had had the most amazing sleep, only to look at the clock and realize that it was only 12:00AM. The jet lag set in!!

The next morning we managed to find a rental vehicle that was big enough for our family of 6 along with all of our luggage. The vehicle is an amazing Volkswagen Caddy . It has room enough for 7 people including lots of luggage space. On Thursday we drove to Warwick and spent the evening at the Hilton Warwick. The hotel was great and the staff were extremely welcoming of our family.

After another night of jet lag waring off, I woke up early to organize for us to rent a home for a couple of weeks. And that is where we currently are right now!! Renting a house in the beautiful county of Warwickshire. We have tranquil views, I have an internet connection!! We have some time to enjoy a bit of downtime, and I get to show off England to my family!! It is wonderful. We are also purposefully not doing the tourist thing. My wife really wants to see what it would be like to live here. Having lived here for 14 years I am well aware of what it is like. My wife and kids, on the other hand, are getting a first time exposure to living in England!!

Of course, I am back at work now working remotely for an amazing client. So I will be heads down working hard until the course comes up in London. As of right now we are only 2 months away from home, 10 to go!!

As mini-retirements go, this being our true first, as well as the places that we have visited, make it a truly unforgettable experience that will be forever burned into our memories!!

Retire With Passion!!

After an amazing week sharing with other people in a Vancouver Nothin But .Net course, it was time for us to hit the road!! We traveled down the west coast and spent some time in the wonderful little town of Astoria. Astoria has been home to the filming of many wonderful shows. For our family it was an opportunity to visit the town that Goonies (one of my all time favorite movies) was filmed. While there we went and took a visit to the Goonie house!!

From Astoria we started to head East as we had to start making our way towards DisneyWorld. Along the way I took a wrong turn and we ended up visiting Multnomah Falls. While we all made our way to the main bridge to see the falls up close and personal, it was only my 2 eldest sons and myself who made the trek all the way up to the top of the falls. A 620' climb that gave us all our exercise for the day!!

Making short stints of driving and stopping in places along the way, we now find ourselves in Austin for a day before we make our way across to Panama City Beach where we will reside for the week prior to heading to DisneyWorld.

Our trip has only just begun and we have been able to see some truly amazing sights and have some awesome irreplaceable family moments!!

I'll keep you updated as we make our way around.

With respects to traveling and seeing the world, Shane Courtrille sent me a link to a great video that you should check out, as it might give you some ideas as to where you might want to travel when vacation time rolls around ( and also remind you of how dance is the global language!!)

Develop With Passion!!

In order to not steal any thunder from the post, the title along details my sentiments about why so many people miss the mark on truly achieving their dreams. If you have not yet started reading his blog, Tim Ferris shares a lot of his own personal experiments with lifestyle tweaks that allow him to live a much "richer" life than most will ever experience.

None of this is out of your reach, and everyone has their own definition of what living a rich life means to them. If you can't say that you are currently living the life you dreamed about, only you can do something about it. I had to ask for God's guidance and be obedient to His direction, as well as take risks that seemed impossible to me to start truly living the life that my wife and I dreamed about when we first got married 12 years ago.

Please take the time to read the post titled Why Bigger Goals = Less Competition, and subscribe to the blog already!!

For those of you who are tuned to this blog hoping to see more technical content, you are going to have to be more patient. As currently I am much more focused on empowering people with respect to their thinking on how to "achieve childhood dreams".

Live and Develop With Passion!!

My family and I are big proponents of lifestyle design. I was unfamiliar with the term until I started reading the great blog of Mr. Tim Ferris.

I posted a while ago about how the Lord had prompted us to give away all of our material possessions!! Save for a few bags of clothing and some irreplaceable childhood mementos of the kids, we are officially a 100% mobile family.

For the last 2 years my family and I have been doing a lot of traveling. For the other 10 years of our marriage we did zero!! This has been a large and much welcomed change for us, and it was one of the items that we had on our original "big dream list".

Unfortunately, a large majority of the travel consisted of business related trips that left me with little time to enjoy the places that we were all visiting. My wife and I decided early on in our marriage that we would always make a commitment to travel as a family. I can count on one hand the number of times in my entire career that I have ever had to travel without my family, and all of those times were due to circumstances that were beyond our control. So though we have been traveling as a family, I can't say that I have been able to enjoy the locations as much as they have, thankfully this has been improving over the last couple of trips and is about to undertake a major overhaul!!

My wife and I have always felt the same about enjoying life one day at a time, and not just waiting for the good stuff when I get to "retirement". We want our kids to see that the world is a phenomenal place with lots of little adventures that can be taken all the time. To that end, tomorrow my family and I will be the leaving our "comfort zone" of a stable home and known environment, to hit the open road and travel the world for the next 6 months - 1 year!! We have several key places that we want to hit on our journey, but we are keeping our options open and letting the Lord direct us in the location he wants us to go.

I feel confident that all of the traveling we have been doing these past 2 years was to prepare us for this time. We are looking forward to be able to grow even stronger as a family unit, while also trusting in the Lord to help us meet our needs as we go about our travels. Initially we thought that Austin was the place that we were going to end up. At this time, we do not feel that it is the place. We want to use this journey as an opportunity for us to see new places, meet new people, and be a blessing to anyone the Lord puts in our path along our travels. As well, as potentially open our eyes to a place that we can eventually establish roots in.

What about work? I decided to bite the bullet and offer my current client the ability for me to work remotely in lieu of several months of consulting fees. They are a startup company with a potentially awesome product that just needs some time to grow their legs. I have a vested interest in seeing this thing succeed, so I will continue to do my part in a completely remote fashion. I have been working on my own for the last year and am hoping to conclude this project by the end of the year so that when we have completed our travels, I will be able to reconnect with a team that is in need of an extra developer!! This means that I am purposefully taking a hit so that I can enjoy the experience of being on the open road. There will only be a month in the next 6 months that will be a pure vacation month. The rest of my schedule should look as follows:

• 5:30AM - Wake up and work out
• 7:30AM - Start work, complete one of my most important tasks of the day
• 11:00AM - Check email once
• 11:20AM - Lunch
• 11:50AM - 2:30PM - Complete work day

At 2:30PM each day I will connect with my family and we will explore whatever location we happen to be in. I am working on a condensed schedule, as an emphasis on lifestyle design draws me away from the typical 9-5 schedule. It may take me a little longer to get my responsibilities completed, but the journey will be so much more rewarding!!

Of course, I am keeping myself open to the option of being able to work with other teams in an ad-hoc nature as we progress through our travels. Which reminds me!! In the end of October timeframe, if you happen to know of a company that would be willing to have a good remote resource available at a steal of a rate, get in contact with me!!

So far, the places that we know we are visiting are as follows:

• Vancouver
• San Francisco
• San Diego
• Panama City Beach
• Orlando
• Domican Repuplic
• England
• Dusseldorf, Germany
• Paris,France
• Las Vegas

Places that we would also like to visit during this time:

• Greece
• Turks and Caicos
• Scotland
• Rome

We head out tomorrow in the family van, and will be driving as much as we can while we are in the US and Canada. While in Europe we are going to try to exercise the train infrastructure as much as possible.

At this point we actually have no idea where our travels will ultimately take us, but we are all approaching this trip with a great deal of anticipation.

What is my point to all of this? 3 years ago I would not have dreamed of orchestrating this kind of endeavor. Where I am sitting today, I understand the importance of taking the time to live "now". In the last couple of months, our family goals have once again shifted, and my wife and I are once again "dreaming big" to see where we want to take our family. If we were not willing to "give it all up" in pursuit of a bigger dream that we all share as a family, we would easily be able to sink into a comfortable, known, safe lifestyle that would not really challenge us as a family. I have done it before on my blog and I am going to do it again now. Read the following books/resources:

• The Dream Giver
• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
• Tim Ferris
• The Purpose Driven Life
• The Greatness Guide
• The Prayer of Jabez

After reading through the above resources ask yourself the following questions:

• What do I really want to achieve out of life?
• What legacy do I want to leave for my kids?
• What legacy do I want to leave for others?
• What am I currently trying to handle that I should be forgetting about completely?
• What am I currently holding onto that could potentially hinder me from achieving my goals?
• What are my goals?
• How can I start truly "living" today?

Answering the questions above could be the start of a new path for your entire life. You have to be able to embrace the unknown with courage, remembering as the Prayer Of Jabez says, in the places you feel the most uncomfortable, is where the potential for growth is the greatest!!

Live and Develop With Passion!!!

Well, I have been pretty quiet on this blog for the last little while, so I thought I would take some time to share a little about what the Boodhoo family has been upto.

We just recently decided to give away the majority of our material possessions, sell our house and embark on a completely new adventure. That adventure entails us moving to Austin!! Over the last year my family and I have fell in love with the Austin area. The people are friendly, the weather is amazing, and there seems to be no shortage of work for software developers.

"Why in the world did you give away all of your stuff?" is the question I am sure that a lot of people are asking. When we talk to people about this, we let them know that we really felt strongly that the Lord was directing us to bless our family and friends with the blessings he had provided us with. The response has been more amazing than we could have imagined, and we know that God used us to impact them in ways we could not have thought about. It also helped us as a family to live what we speak and demonstrate that we are not bound/defined by what we have. The kids are learning amazing lessons about what is truly "valuable" during this process.

For the last week my family and I have been living out of a hotel, swimming almost every day and enjoying spending a lot of time together. The kids are having an absolute blast. Next week we are going to be in Austin to do some house hunting, I will be doing the majority of the browsing this weekend as I will be leading another Nothin But .Net Bootcamp.

We are extremely excited about the opportunities that the Lord has in store for us, and we bravely step out of the land of "Familiar" in order to pursue our "Big Dream" (if you are curious about those terms, pick up a copy of the book "The Dream Giver").

What does the future hold for us? One day at a time, we are going to find out!!

Next Monday I start another iteration of the Nothin But .Net coding bootcamp. It looks like it will be a blast, but just as exciting is the trip to the course!! This past Wednesday the family and I headed out in the trusty family van, an embarked on a long drive to Richmond, VA!!!!

We have been blessed with amazing travelers, and there is quite a sense of accomplishment when you cross another state line!! It is hard to describe the awesomeness of traveling cross country with your family in tow. God is good.

The nice thing about doing a 40+ hour drive, is that you set the bar extremely high for future trips. Which means that most any other drive we make after this will be trivial in comparison.

It is definitely not something you can do all the time, but I think that everyone should take the opportunity to try it at least once. You may surprise yourself.

Seeing as how this is a personal announcement, I shouldn't be surprised that I did not announce this sooner. Last week my wife and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary!! At 28 (we got married right out of high school) and 4 kids later, we have been blessed beyond measure.

Here are a couple of tips that have really helped us solidify a strong relationship:

• Talk about everything
• Compromise
• Remember that it's not all about "you"
• Pray together
• Laugh together
• Set goals together and work together to achieve them
• Don't hide from conflict
• Cuddle Lots

I could keep on listing these, but I don't want this post to turn into "Tips for a successful marriage".

The main point was to shout out this personal milestone that we both feel extremely blessed to have achieved.

This is something I should have blogged about a long time ago (although seeing how I keep my personal life very private, it should be no surprise). My amazingly talented sister has been hard at work recording songs for an album she is working on. Head over to her myspace page if you are interested in hearing some of her stuff. As well as being an incredible singer, she is also an extremely loving mother and wife!! I am very proud of her.

Request her songs on your local radio stations, and let's spread the word about her awesome music.

We have recently had a family member pass away (my wife’s grandma). To that end, I will be out of the blogging loop for the next week or so.

Thanks