Have you ever been to the Kentucky Derby?  If not, have you watched it on TV??  This week in Louisville is probably even bigger than Christmas.  We have major events every day for almost two weeks.  This past week-end was the Mini-Marathon and the Great Balloon Race.  Tomorrow morning I’m leaving at 6:30 a.m. for [...]

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I don’t know about you, but I still think of Hawaii as Paradise!  I’ve been twice now and it’s just as beautiful as the movies and travel books portray it.  I’m not sure whether most people think of it as a place on the cutting edge of medical procedures.  Thanks to my dear friend and [...]

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Tonight I spoke to a delightful audience of holistic nurses about the use of music in a clinical setting.  The nurses were amazed to find out how simple and yet powerful music can be in an ER, an OR, a neonatal nursery or a hospice unit.  Music is one of the oldest means for healing [...]

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My phone has been ringing and my inbox has been mounting up.  Everyone wants to know what the decision was by the MBA committee studying my business model for Healing Musi Enterprises.  The presentation lasted over an hour and at the end I was presented with a nearly 50-page document detailing their results.  Of course [...]

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I’ll bet that got your attention…it sure got mine this a.m. about 5:37 when my bed started shaking violently!  I was pretty deep in sleep and my first though was “earthquake!!” followed quickly by “nahhhhhhh.”  I quickly decided it must have been a big truck out on the street and looked out the window.  In [...]

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It’s not going to be easy to sleep tonight!  Tomorrow I will hear a presentation that three MBA students have been working on as their final project.  They have been studying my business, Healing Music Enterprises, and conducting a feasibility study for my invention and ideas on music with surgery.  The presentation will be videotaped [...]

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Recently, I wrote on a post on my “Music Healing and Animals” blog about a kitty named Nora that loves to play the piano!  When I started the music and animal blog over a year ago I wondered if I’d really have enough material to post very often.  To my surprise and delight I have [...]

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Earlier today I was talking with an old friend about the benefits of music during surgery. Of course the number one benefit that I usually tell people is the fact that reasearch has documented that people using music during surgery have been known to need less than 50% of the usual amount of anesthesia. Why [...]

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Freckles is an attentive boy, a beagle-mix rescued from sure death on Sixth Street some five years ago.He retains a strong food motive from his days of wandering the urban wilderness. So, Freckles was, as usual, at hand when my husband and I put a CD in the player and sat down on the designated [...]

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Speaking as an almost 60 y.o., I am increasingly aware on a daily basis that music makes me happy and encouraged when I’m feeling down, it calms me when I’m feeling anxious and it brings back loads of happy memories when life seems dull and uninteresting! Why? Well, obviously a lot of it has to [...]

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About this time of year many of us begin to think of Spring Cleaning. The weather is getting warm, doors and windows are staying open more and there is a strong desire to sweep away the accumulated dust, dirt, and pet hair that gathered over the winter. But have you thought about doing that for [...]

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Hospitalization can stress out anyone, but especially severely premature babies, who are born neurologically immature. Florida State University music therapist Jayne Standley and her colleagues are reducing the trauma and speeding the pace of the infants’ progression with a simple tool: a customized pacifier and a round of lullabies. [paragraph] Babies born before the 34th [...]

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I started playing the piano when  was about three years old.  I wasn’t a prodigy but I did love the sound of the piano and would be mesmerized by anyone who could play.  We didn’t even have a piano but I would go next-door to my father’s church and find an availabe piano and pick [...]

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You’ve probably heard of how powerful familiar music is with Alzheimer’s patients.  When I first stepped into the field of music medicine, one of the first research studies that I did dealt with “The Therapeutic Use of Music with Alzheimer’s Patients.”  In a nutshell, it seems that the music that you listen to during your “courting years” [...]

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I am blessed to have friends from all over the planet! One of these dear friends sent me a video clip last night of a little Korean prodigy and her appearance on Korea’s version of American Idol. They are calling her the “Korean Mozart” but the difference (besides the fact that she’s a little girl!) [...]

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For much of his life — indeed, for all of this and much of the past century — Victor Parsonnet has stood at the center of Newark history, especially in the fields of medicine and music. As a cardiac surgeon, he has been closely involved with such pioneering developments as the pacemaker, the transplant, and [...]

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