We made it to our 25th
As I am typing this, I am praying that posting this less than 24 hours from our Anniversary doesn't jinx us. Am I superstitious?
You bet I am and I will tell you why. Back on Memorial Day in May of 2008, just one week before we were to embark on our fully booked "Coffee House Tour," across the country, my husband experienced his first mini stroke. The tour was booked to promote our brand new CD "ALL ACCESS." One thousand copies of the CD had literally arrived to our house the day before Memorial Day. We marveled at our labor of love, all 16 of our song babies proudly displayed and listed on the back of the CD. As I always do, I am jumping ahead of myself so lets go back a few steps.
8 years in the making
This CD was 8 years in the making. For a bit of that time, I produced a Nightly Songwriters Show from The Broken Spoke Songwriters Cafe. We lived in Georgia at the time. We traveled back and forth from Northern GA to Nashville TN on weekends for production meetings for my nightly show. During this time, we continued to write songs. The show became very successful and the owner sold the business a few years later.
Inside The Song
I booked singer songwriters, local and regional bands under the name ITS Entertainment with my website:
www.InsideTheSong.com
We also saw a dream come true when we opened up our own songwriters CAfe in Winder, GA. It was called Inside The Song Acoustic Cafe and Guitar Store. Talent new, old, big and small took that stage. We had some great moments there and remember fondly shows that brought the best that Nashville and even the world had to offer to our stage.
That was in the year 2000. We ended up having to close a year and 1/2 later because of the attack on the United States on 9-11. We wrote "Let Freedom Reign" from our ALL ACCESS CD about the resilience of America..
Grand children
We became grandparents over and over again, every baby a blessing. The grand baby we got to know the best was our Ashlee who stayed with me while her mother worked. We all forged a bond that can never be broken and every moment with Ashlee became beautiful memories. We created a song from those moments and it is on this CD called "Lee Lee's Lullaby."
Stories about songs
We have stories about every single song on this 16 song CD. If you would like to hear all the stories behind the songs, I would be happy to share them, just let me know in the comment section below. This post was supposed to be about our 25th Anniversary and how we have survived things most couldn't to make it to this milestone. 5 years ago when Greg was diagnosed with bladder cancer, we truly thought that would be the end or near the end of our Anniversaries. Tomorrow marks 25 years since we tied the knot in Patchogue, NY on Long Island. We still have about 800 of these CD's left because we didn't get to tour it. After mini stroke, he had a full blown stroke, cancer, and so much more has happened. All has been documented in this journal portion of our website. You can go back and start at the beginning of the health issues which begins at the first part of our website journal.
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Happy Anniversary my sweet love
WE MADE IT TO 25!!
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