Self Introduction

[momofangels]

Hi, my name is Dana. I am 35 year old mother of 4 (2 mouthy but beautiful teenage daughters and a set of boy/girl twins who are in Heaven but would be 4 now). I am a social worker and became very ill with lupus. I am not disabled and I hate it. My life before consisted of lots of softball, skydiving, huge caseloads, did I mention ball games? every night? I also played the piano for my church for a couple of years.

Life took it's unexpected turns and tragedy and illness took over my body and my home. I am not able to care for my kids full time now or work. And I have recently gone into kidney failure. However, I am very happy. I love to sing and play piano and get lost in the music. I actually didn't know I could sing at all until a couple of years ago and so if I can have one more dream......well, here I am. I do my best to take good care of myself and still live independently. I love to write articles, music, poetry...whatever. I am just as happy as before; I just had to discover new interests and talents that didn't require a parachute.

I live in the Kansas City area and hope to coming to Nashville soon, for vacation, fun, singing and pursuing my newest dream....music! If I never make it, at least I had a fun ride.

Anyway, look forward to meeting all of you and hearing about Nashville. That's somehow not a place I imagined myself trying to get to, but I'll be planning my first trip within the month I think. Okay, nice to meet you. Take care.

[Unregistered]

best of luck to you with whatever you do. hope your trip to nashville is a great one!

[momofangels]

Thank you. I'm sure the lists of people trying to get in on open mic nights are so incredibly long and competitive that that it will be a vacation, and the only singing going on will be in the car. lol. But I think it would be fun to go see what it's like. Especially since it's so miserably cold here right now. Going south sounds good right about now.