I have been doing this web site for some 8 years now. Some of you viewers have asked me to tell you a little about myself ... so here goes.

I was born and raised in Rahway, New Jersey. My love of music started in my grandfather's church. He was a Methodist minister and the most intelligent and interesting man I have ever known!

It seemed that God decided I should have a singing voice so I started performing on Sunday mornings in the choir. I acquired a deep and abiding love for spiritual music.

My singing took me on a journey of various genres in the music world. I came to love all the music of the 40's and 50's. As I became a teenager I was asked to sing at weddings and parties. This became my income thru those younger years. I soon joined a gospel quartet. I found that very rewarding also.

It was at this time I discovered the movies and all of it's magic. Sitting in a darkened theatre on a Saturday afternoon I was whisked away to a fantasy world of great proportions! Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, William Holden ,Susan Hayward, Clark Gable were my idols ... to mention a very few.

My first movie musical was "The Wizard Of Oz". From that moment on I never missed a Judy Garland film. In my minds eye I 'was' Judy Garland!

I bought all of her records. Learned every word and sung along with a hairbrush for a mic. My bedroom mirror for my audience. I even had a summer of singing with an area band and a real mic.

My next musical was "Good News" with June Allyson and Peter Lawford. Followed by Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Howard Keel and Betty Hutton. From that moment on I spent my $.50 on nothing but musical movies. Oh, once in a while I deviated to the other movie house in town called the Empire Theater.

The Empire Theater was known for showing the scary stuff like " Frankenstein " with Boris Karloff and " Dracula " with Bela Lugosi. I hated those movies! The only reason I went was to be with my 5th grade sweetheart. That's where we went to share a blue woolen hat, of his, to shield us from the scarier things happening on the screen. Wonderful and endearing memories! I never forgot that young man!

I made a big decision at that time. I decided I would become a movie star! I practised and practised until I felt I was ready. I joined a community theater. I did all that was expected of me from wardrobe to acting. I still hadn't gotten to direct anything. I told my grandfather, in my senior year of high school that I wanted to attend the Academy Of Dramatic Arts in New York City. I needed his backing to get in. He was appalled!

" We have never had an actor in this family! " he chided. I was devastated!

He offered to pay my way thru Julliard. In rebellion I refused to apply to Julliard which was probably the biggest mistake of my life. Instead, I attended Rutgers Conservatory of Music for two years for voice.

I didn't finish. I got married instead and decided to become a housewife. I became a mother of Jeff,Steve, Meri and Karen and devoted my time to raising my children.

In 1976 MGM came to to our small community of Toms River, N.J. to shoot " The Amityville Horror ". This was my Cinderella period!

I made a very good friend who was the transportation captain for this shoot. Thru him I got to meet all of the stars, and watch, up close, how a movie is made. The next year I was invited to Boston. MGM was filming " Yes Gorgio ". I met Lucianno Pavarati.

In 1978 I found myself in North Carolina on the set of " Brainstorm ". This time I got to be an extra in a scene with Louis Fletcher. I met Natalie Wood. This was two months before her tragic death.

As this period came to a close my children were coming into their own. Putting my fantasies aside I helped my youngest son, Steve, put together a band and an Elvis Presley impersonation. I found that he and I had so much in common with this form of music and Steve could sing! So on the road we went with our little show. What a time that was!

My oldest son came back from the army. I knew he had a nice voice but when we got him involved he became as good as his brother singing 50's and 60's music and we added him to the band.

Meri and I sang back-up. Karen, who had a flair for art, did the posters. Great time for all of us!

As the boys got married and started having children of their own the band sort of took a back seat. We never stopped singing though. Whenever we got together we just seemed to be drawn to the old piano.

As living got financially harder in New Jersey we all made a decision to leave the state. Everyone went their own way. Florida, Arizona and Meri stayed in New Jersey. She now lives in Conneticutt. Karen, who was still in school, went to Tennessee with me in 1986.

Since I have moved here I have fulfilled two of my dreams. I got a job as a D.J. with the local radio station..WMLR. They made me a co-anchor on a talk show called 'The Lunch Club"

Then my most challenging project of all! A few local people wanted to start a community theatre here. They asked me to spearhead it. I directed and managed this theater thru a very exciting time! We showcased every Rogers and Hammerstein broadway musical that we could get our hands on. Several variety and talent shows and many dinner theater shows. It was a wonderful time in my life and I finally got to direct.

Soon it was time for someone else to take the project over. So in 1997 I very quietly retired. My arthritis got the best of me and it was time to take a back seat anyway.

I was glad to be home. I didn't have much to fill my days. I had many grandchildren but most lived far away.

I opened a day care here in Hohenwald that I ran for several years. I wrote for the local newspaper, too. I also threw myself into helping raise my daughter's son, Jordon, which was very rewarding. Still nothing caught my interest outside the home any more. We bought my son's second hand computer and I was absolutely vehement that I would never touch it!

As time went by, and with a little nudging from the family, I found that you can actaully teach an old dog new tricks ! This new gadget could be very entertaining and informative I discovered!

In 2000 a miracle happened! After 48 years I found, quite by accident, my old school chum.

Remember him?

My fifth grade sweetheart?

Well, after many " catch-up " telephone conversations he decided that he could teach me how to do a web site.

I had absolutely no faith in the idea at all! However, I was so happy to have contact with my dear " young friend " that I would have tried anything just to keep the lines of communication open once more.

So we started!

He teaching and me trying to understand what HTML code was all about. I must tell you. I thought, " This is impossible! "

There was frustration almost every day. Before long we learned to give and take. Only then did the knowledge, finally, start to sink in.

The rest of the story is told by the enjoyment I have on this web site! What a great gift he gave me to carry into my golden years. It was all done thru the computer and the phone.

Jeff and Steve are both running Karaoke businesses and still performing. Meri is making a success of cooperate America. Karen works with troubled teens and is a wonderful mother.

I am further blessed with watching the next generation, as they come up thru the ranks. Lovers of good music all! Some live near me. My granddaughters, Holly (8) and Haley (10) are becoming wonderful performers themselves. Jordon has now joined me
in the maintaining of this web site. He has taken over
a lot of the responsibility of the design and up keep.

I turned 72 this year, have 4 children, 11 grandchildren,
7 great grandchildren.

I am also back working. I teach two days a week at a private school.
They find me, amazingly useful. I head up the theater and music departments.
It's very rewarding !

Not only that but hundreds of wonderful people, in cyber space, who come to see what I have created, musically, every day.