Sharing Love Beyond Valentine’s Day

Quality of life

Sharing love with family and friends need not be relegated to one or two days a year. If anything, love needs to be shared beyond Valentine’s Day. It can be shared with a smile, with a hug. Love can be shared by offering a listening ear, It is time spent...

Holiday Travel Playlists

Music

This time of year, it is easy for me to hear and sing more holiday music than I can stand. Maybe it is an occupational hazard as a music therapist. Maybe it is the fact holiday music is now played at some businesses before Halloween. So, before I set off to see family...

Holiday Sing-along

Music, Music Therapy, Older Adults

Here are the high plains of northwestern Kansas, we have begun singing Christmas songs at the assisted living facilities I visit. Employees, volunteers, music therapists, and carolers may find a few “new” old gems to add from my list. So here we go: Image...

St. Patrick’s Song

Music, Music Therapy, Older Adults, Resources

St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner which has many thinking of Irish songs.  Here are a few tunes on my Irish sing-along list for older adults I will be sharing in the Hays, KS area during my Music Therapy sessions: My Bonnie Too-ra-loo-ra Four Leaf...