Dearest friends,

How the heck are you? I'm doing OK....am writing this up in Wisconsin...it's November. I'd be repeating myself if I mentioned how FAST I think the world is spinning these days........but I just have to say it. What is going on here?

At any rate, I'm up here doing some Gift of Hospice fundraisers...I'm an honorary "cheesehead" I come up here so often! Then on my way to Toledo for a keynote for the Area Office on Aging, and a Unity of Toledo appearance.

What I've missed telling you about is a great time in Saint Pete, with Russell Brumfield and his Millionaire Mind Shift weekend. Russell is the mastermind behind the I Am Power work....and he's really quite brilliant. Check him out. He has a lot to teach us, and his methods are unique and powerful.

I'm supposed to be going to Ireland next month. I hope it all comes together! I'll keep you posted. Hopefully, I'll write my next posting from there!

My Mama is in her new place, in a dementia care facility in Nashville. It was incredibly difficult....for her & for me, AND, she's already more relaxed than I've seen her in a long time. It's definitely the right place for her, as hard as it was to admit. Her money should hold out for another 2 years, if I manage it correctly. Then.....I'm hoping to have some huge cuts out there by that time!

I've had songs on "hold" for Taylor Swift, Rascal Flatts, and several other folks. None of the holds HELD, but I have faith. My songplugger works hard and is very good at what she does. I promise that you all will be the FIRST to know when I do get a great cut.

And that's about it for my life of late. I hope this finds you well and peaceful and prosperous. Thanks for checking in.....and caring....and please accept some giant cyber hugs from me.

With great love,

xxxx Karen

Holy Cow,

It was brought to my attention that I have been neglecting this page. I apologize. AND, I'd like to ask you to check out my blog at www.abesgarden.org  I think perhaps you'll forgive me.

I promise to do better. Just back from 10 days in Florida, again! First time I've ever been in south Florida in the summer. Oh my. Unbelievably HOT.

And we still had a great time. I did two of my new "Healing Hearts" workshops...one in Ft.  Myers, and on in Miami...and in between, we went to see our dear friend Margarita in Key West. Did a nighttime swim in the ocean just outside her door....there was a full moon. It was so amazing...there we were, floating on our noodles...me and Margarita and Tanju, her good friend. Just the three of us.........uh..........no, let me see. We were alone for about 30 seconds....THEN we were joined by HOARDS of the most aggressive mosquitoes I've ever experienced. They bit my nose, my ears, my cheeks, my neck, my shoulders.  I was swatting left and right, trying to enjoy the ocean and the moon and the palm trees. They hardly lit on Margarita or Tanju....just ME. Tasty me.

And just when they were starting to think I was the biggest WUSS of all time, I started to feel these ELECTRIC SHOCKS on my left arm. Oh my God! "Oh...they're just stinging nettles....we must have passed through their territory"

That was it. Enough. Buh Bye ocean. Buh Bye full moon. Give me swimming pools from now on!!

My daughter Rachael will be 26 this coming week. Hard to believe. We're having a get together and dinner for her at the house. I'm so grateful that she's my child...and that she made it through her "dark days", and that she's in school and doing great.

AND, I'm grateful for you....grateful that you took the time to check in here. I'm sending you my love, my warm wishes for a lovely summer, free from mosquitoes, stinging nettles, and filled with peace and friendship.

Lots of love to you,

Karen

Just got back from 2 1/2 weeks in Florida. Ahhhh. It was truly wonderful. My Mom did great. I DID lie for the first week plus a bit, then it got too weird, and I actually told her I was out of town. She was fine.

I am grateful for wonderful friends in my life. We stayed with friend Gail in Miami, and with friend Margarita in Key West. Great friends, great homes...one on a lake, the other on the ocean. Life is good.

I ended up co-writing an amazing song in Key West. I'm so happy that I said "YES" to Ms. Dawn Wilder when she asked. It's about a young girl who gets pregnant, has the baby, tries very hard to raise it, then loves it enough to give it up for adoption. It's a beautiful song.

I'm taking Life Mastery with Mary Mannin Morrisey, and loving it. We are the co-creators of our lives. Wow. It's one thing to know that on an intellectual level, and quite another to put into practice! I'm sure I'll be working this programs for the rest of my life.

I am loving you guys and gals. THANK YOU so much for stopping by.

Big cyber hugs to all.

xxx

ktg

 OH my word!!

Happy FEBRUARY everyone! This is insane. I have only the lamest of excuses....I couldn't get in here due to a technical difficulty....but that's only been for the last 3 weeks or so. For the OTHER month, I can only claim a muddled brain!

It's quite cold here in Nashville...which is why Dennis and I will be heading to Florida in a few weeks! I am concerned about leaving my Mama for that long, AND, I must work, and I must have a life....right? She lives in a lovely assisted living facility....they take good care of her....it's just that she treats me like a 5 year old would treat her Mama....and I'm the Mama...you see? How scary would it be when you're 5 to have your Mama leave town for several weeks? So...I'll be lying for the first week....saying I'm sick, I'm working....(theraputic lying, it's called) and then eventually I may have to fess up.

Please give generously to the Alzheimer's Association for research. Do you know how many people have this disease? Check this out:

That's just not right. We have got to do something about this. Actually, if you want to give to someplace amazing, check out Abe's Garden here in Nashville. (www.abesgarden.org)

That's it for now. I'm thanking you for stopping by, and sending big cyber hugs your way. Please know that you are loved.

xxx

ktg

Hi dearest friends,

Thanksgiving is over, winter is coming, we cancelled our trip to Hawaii, and life continues to be interesting!

November has been packed with Hospice Fundraisers, and a first-hand look at caregivers working with perinatal loss. Very special people. Also with Unity friends in Indianapolis and in Charlottesville....also very special people.

I made two new friends, Randy and Cheryl, who have two special needs children. Listening to their story opened me up to receive an amazing song idea from the Universe....I went to my dear friend Lisa Aschmann to finish it, and Randy came to town to produce the recording. It's quite an amazing song and production. My friend Jason Garner did an incredible job programming and playing, and Chris Graffanino played spectacular guitar on it. (OK...and I sang my butt off on it, too!)

I can't wait to share the song with you. We'll be debuting it at an event in AZ in May, but I'll keep you posted on all of the goings on before then.

I'm talking with a publisher in town who may be the answer to my prayers and affirmations about wanting a TEAM to work with....I've been doing my own publishing for 8 years....it's very lonely, and very hard to do!

I'll keep you posted on that front, too. Thank you so much for stopping by here. We're working on video blogs that will be FUN and very cool....coming soon to this website. Keep coming back.

I'm sending each one of you a giant hug.....remember to breathe during these Holiday get togethers.....and remember that each one of those annoying, obnoxious relatives is just like YOU, and that we are all children of God, doing the very best we can. Happy Chanukah. Merry Christmas. Joyous Kwanza.

xxx

ktg

Happy Fall!!

I'm so thrilled that the air is turning crisp and cooler. It's October, and I've been busy singing in the choir for the High Holidays at Congregation Micah here in Nashville. It's such lovely, complicated music, and me being an alto...I get to sing all of the cool harmony parts! The music would be difficult if we were singing in English, only most of the time, it's transliterated Hebrew!  As they say in the old country...."oy vey!"

My September was amazing. The folks I met from Auto Owners were terrific, the CSR's from all over the country were lovely and fun...my Unity of Houston Women's group was powerful and amazing...due in large part to Mary Mannin Morrisey, who is possibly my favorite teacher on the planet. Her daughter Jennifer was there too, and she has become a wonderful teacher/healer too with her body work....movement.....dance.  I was astounded at how much good it does my soul to move my body to music. Duh. How could I not know that? Or forget that? Oh well....it's good to remember. We all need to dance.  In private, preferably! I ended up just sobbing sometimes, right before I was laughing and leaping for joy!! Strong stuff.

Have been writing some wonderful songs....several LOVE songs...so different for me. Yup....no issues....no angst, no drama or trauma....just sweet sappy love songs....GOOD ones, mind you!  Of course I've also been writing some fun, funny stuff, and some heavy ones here and there.

What else? Rachael has switched her major from audio engineering to film and video. I fully expect her to excel, and make terrific movies, and be able to pay back the student loans which are piling up rapidly....with ME as cosigner!

To that end....I have decided to see if there's a publisher around who is thrilled with my songs and wants to make a lot of money with them....as well as possibly changing some lives. When I find THAT publisher, it will be a great day!  I am very, very good at creating songs......as for the business end...not so much.

Off to upstate New York and Canada next. I hope to see some of you up there. I can't thank you enough for stopping by here, and checking in.

Please know that you are loved....and that you are here on this planet to do what YOU came to do....nobody else can do it....you are completely unique in that regard. I'm excited for you.

Much love and many hugs,

xxxx

Karen

Greetings my friends,

I've been unable to get in here to "blog" for several months. I apologize, profusely.

It's nice to be back in action here! It's mid September...and this is one crazy travel month for me.  I've been in Lansing, MI, and in Kansas City, Omaha, and somewhere else that I can't recall.  Jet lag!

I WON!!! Colorblind won a Posi award this week.  I'm excited. I do so love that song, and hope that it continues to get out to the world and be heard.

More soon, I promise. I'm just home from the airport, and it's waaay past my bedtime. I hope that each one of you is happy and healthy, and remembering who you are.....a most precious child of God....deserving of all good things.

Love and kisses,

Karen

Hi dear people,

OK....so, what happend to JUNE? Literally. You might notice that there's a missing month. Yup. There is. And what is my excuse for such negligence? Overloaded brain circuits is the only one I can come up with. I hope you'll forgive me.

So, here we are in JULY, of 2008. My baby will be a quarter of a century old this month. My word. She has her first ever gig "spinning" records today. Drum and bass. If you have no idea what that is, it's ok. I wouldn't, if not for Rachael.

I was in Toledo, OH for the first time last month. What a lovely city, and what amazing people. I did a musical keynote for the Area Office on Aging, and was just blown away by the dedicated, powerful people that I met. There are so many ways to make a difference in this world, and it's exciting to be around people who are doing just that.

Since we spoke last, I was also in Pittsburgh for the first time. Also a lovely city....quite beautiful, actually. Who knew? Three rivers, very green and hilly, and again.....amazing people doing very good work.

My Mom's dementia continues to progress. She caused a little flood in her assisted living apartment this week when she started to fill up her sink to wash out a cup, and then went down to have her hair done. Oops. She'll be 93 next month.

On this 4th day of July as I write to you all, I am grateful to live in this country, and have high hopes that we will come together AS a united nation after the elections this year. I am saddened and troubled by how divisive we've become. We really do have much more in common than not, whoever we're going to vote for.

Dennis and I will be off to Florida for 12 days later this month. If you're in the Jacksonville area, I hope to see you either at Jacksonville Unity, Unity of Gainesville, or on Amelia Island.

Promising to do better keeping in touch here....especially since my guest book seems to be dead at the moment. Feel free to drop me a line at ktg@karentaylorgood.com if you can't leave a message in the guest book.

Loving and appreciating you, more than you know.

xxx

karen

It's MAY!! We are actually having a Spring here in Nashville. And it's very, very beautiful. There's a mama dove who will not move from her nest in our bradford pear tree, under which I park my car every day. I had some straw type stuff in my outside planters, which I've been watching all the birds in the neighborhood come and get beak-fulls of to build their nests. I'm happy to provide!!

I've been home all of April, which was a good thing. We got Rachael moved into the basement (a nice finished basement with a bathroom and a separate entrance). My Mom has been extremely confused and needy this month, so I've felt like it was perfect that I've been here.  Tho frankly, just between you and me, I'm DYING to get out of town for a moment.  It seems that only when I'm on the road do I allow myself to not worry so much about her. I actually found my notes from my co-dependency week which I did many years ago. I think it's time to restudy all of that material. Holy cow. This is absolutely the most difficult Life-challenge I've had to face yet. Much harder than dealing with my Daddy's death. 

I'm off to Savannah, GA this week to do a program with my friends at the Alzheimer's Assoc. I hope to give AND receive much comfort there. 

I'll also be in Pittsburgh this month, doing a program for nurses....and since caregivers are my absolute HEROES, I'm excited about that. 

Did I tell you that I completed a 13-song CD in SPANISH?? I took some of my favorite songs, and had my amazing friend Walter Suhr translate them into Spanish. He and his lovely partner Susannah came to Nashville and were with me in the studio, to be sure no Gringa-isms crept in. I'm lucky to have a good accent....being born in El Paso and having help from across the border all my life is a blessing.  If you know of some people, organizations, countries, churches, who could use some meaningful, healing songs in Spanish, please write to me and let me know! (ktg@karentaylorgood.com)

I'm slowly reading Oprah's new pick from Eckert Tolle....it is quite a wonderful book.  I shall now be going back to read his previous book, The Power of Now. (I bought it and kept it by my bed for a year.....what was that about? Did I think the information might seep up though the mattress and into my consciousness as I slept?)  Anyhow....I'm into him now, thank you Oprah, and I recommend both books to you if you haven't checked them out yet.

Big hugs, much love, and many thanks to you all for stopping by here. Drop me a line. Let me know how YOU are this wonderful Spring.

xxxx

ktg

Dear Friends,

I SWEAR I wrote a March letter.....I have absolutely NO idea where it went! Sometimes I find computers quite mystifying!  At any rate.....

HAPPY APRIL!! HAPPY SPRING!  I love Spring....and I'm grateful to live in Nashville, where we actually have four wonderful Seasons!  I had some great trips in March, but do I remember them now? Nope.  I'm sure if I looked in my calendar they would all come back to me....but, let's live in the NOW!

This month I am home a lot, which turned out to be a very good thing. My beautiful daughter Rachael transferred from the Art Institute in Atlanta to the branch in Nashville, and is moving back home for a while. We are all both delighted and worried about this new situation! I remember living on my own, and then moving back home. It's tough. I never thought about how it was on MY parents......and now I know that it was tough on them, too!  The good news is, I adore my child, and hearing her laughter in this house again is a very, very good thing. MY challenge is mostly to realize that she's 24, and a capable young woman, and not slip back into codependent Mommy mode.  That's very tough. I want to FIX her every problem. I want to MAKE her happy all of the time. It's exhausting.....and completely pointless! As I wrote in a song about just this thing...."I'M NOT THAT POWERFUL!"

So....we've completely cleared out the basement, which was quite an undertaking....all of my product, Dennis' office....a treadmill.....to make a great space for her, where she can make her music anytime of the night or day, and come and go as she pleases, and have some privacy. The UHaul gets unloaded this very afternoon.....(we've hired some muscle...I'm not THAT crazy!)

My precious stepson Tim stepped in and PAINTED the basement for us! God bless him......and my lovely daughter in law Lisa taught me how to actually USE the Myspace page that Rachael had set up for me. I feel that I've traveled MANY light years into the new century these past few days.

My Mama's brain connections continue to disappear....one at a time.  It's sometimes frustrating, sometimes painful.....and I still choose to believe that it's perfect, and that she's just "letting go". We still have an amazing connection, and still have some fun, sweet times together.

I hope that life finds you well.........that you're able to enjoy a beautiful Spring this year. Remember that you are not alone.....that you can't do everything by yourself, and that it's important to ASK for HELP! I wrote a cool chorus recently and shared it with many writers at the Harmonizing with Humanity event in Phoenix (oh yes....THAT'S where I was in March!)....it goes like this:

I don't have to do everything by myself

And a gift that is given is sacred

So please help me learn how to ASK for help

And then help me learn how to TAKE it.

My love to all of you......thanks for checking in,

xxxx

ktg

Happy February All!

I'm just back from my first ever trip to Palm Springs, CA. Wow. What a gorgeous place. It's like my El Paso mountains x 100!! More of them, taller, some with snow on top....but still brown and rugged, and just amazing. AND, this was also my first ever time with the Girl Scout folks. Again, wow. What a powerful and special group of women (and an occasional terrific man!). I was so honored to be able to share some songs and thoughts, and to bestow some  well-deserved pats on the back for the work that they do. I often wonder how very different my Rachael's life would have been had she not quit her Girl Scout troop. 

Ah well....all I can say is, if you have a daughter, OR a granddaughter, do everything you can to get them involved in Girl Scouts. What an empowering organization it is.........and Lord knows, girls growing up in this day and age need a lot of empowering, and great role models. Go Girl Scouts!!!

Oh....and Happy Valentine's Day! This Valentine's Day also marks mine and Dennis' 26th wedding anniversary! Halleluja. I'm grateful for every day of those 26 years....even the ones when I wanted to kill him! It's amazing how much garbage two people can dish out to each other, and still get through it, and still love and respect each other.

I'm heading to Springfield, IL this weekend....(15th-18th)....mostly to work on a book project with my co-author, but also to share with Unity of Springfield. And all of this on President's Day weekend! Thank you Abe....you rock!

I continue to find tremendous help and healing in the "Ask and It Is Given" book, and the CDs from their workshops. Very powerful stuff, which I recommend highly. My meditation space is back up and running, I keep the fountain plugged in and the waters flowing in there. I can't recommend that enough......if you don't have a quiet space for yourself, where you can go and talk to God (or your Higher Power, or Fred, or whoever you talk to....and LISTEN to).....please make one for yourself. My life is so, so much better when I take advantage of that.

That's about it for now. Thank you so much for your guest book entries...for your emails, and your purchases of my music and books. I am very grateful for you, and I'm sending you each a big cyber hug, right now!

Have a great month......much love,

KTG

Dear Friends,

I'm late again! What is up with me? At any rate....Happy New Year!!! May 2008 be the best, healthiest, happiest, most prosperous year ever, for us all!  

Just back from 2 lovely weeks in Florida. We were in St. Pete, Bradenton Beach, Miami, and Key West. It was all quite heavenly, actually. Great people, wonderful presentation, lots of hugs and two-way appreciation. Our return  was very shocking to my system however......Sat. it was at least 85 in Key West, and Sunday night when we got home to Nashville, it was 11 degrees!! Good grief!

Oh well, my dearest step-son Tim picked us up, had the car all pre-warmed (his car has BUTT warmers, too!) and he and Dennis carried all the luggage into the house (as I sang a chorus of "I enjoy being a girl!") And I do! Thanks to men everywhere, who so kindly and gallantly do the shlepping. We love you for it!

So....what else is new? I'm off to Palm Springs, CA in Feb. to do a presentation for 300 Girl Scout directors. I'm excited about that. Hoping to do some work on our house here during the rest of January. We're thinking about hardwood floors instead of carpeting. We both seem to be getting more allergic the older we get!

I've got my meditation space going again......I so recommend that to all of us. It's so important to get away from the world, the noise, the TV, mothers and husbands and children, and just be with ourselves, and our Creator.  Just imagine this amazing stream of creativity, of understanding, of peace, and of answers to all of Life's big questions......and it's broadcasting all of the time....24/7. Our only job to get quiet enough to tune in! How easy is that?

I'm going to end this now, and go do just what I'm suggesting! I'm sending big hugs to each of you, and lots of love. Thank you so much for taking your precious time to come by here. 

Happy, happy New Year. 

xx

ktg

Dear Friends,

Holy Cow!  What has happened to November? Have I mentioned my theory that the world is somehow actually spinning a LOT faster than it used to, and that's why life seems to be going by sooooo fast??? I'm only halfway kidding. How would we know? Any science brains out there, write me a note!

At any rate, here we are, it's already the end of November, so this will be my Nov/December letter to you all!  I spent a large part of Oct and Nov. on the road. It was really good, if exhausting. I started out by myself in Colorado. Visited my dear friends JD Martin and Jan Garrett, got to stay with them and write with them in their lovely home near Aspen. Shared a Sermon In Song at my good friend Rev. Sue Ellen Kelly's church in Denver, then did a Wednesday night at Mile Hi. Both of those were lovely. The music team at Mile Hi just rocks, and I adore them. I also did a Sermon In Song at Unity of the Mountains, near Vail, and that was also wonderful. 

In Boulder, I visited my cousin Morris and his lovely family, stayed a night with them, and went hiking with Morris and his doggie one morning, up in the foothills. Gorgeous. Then my friend Liz and I presented a "breakout session" on our Gift of Hospice fundraising program at the National Association of Home Care and Hospice in Denver. We stayed at a VERY cool hotel in Denver, close to the convention center. The name escapes me right now, but write to me if you need to know. Each floor has a different theme, they have room service items and packages for your DOG....it was just way cool.

Then, I shared a powerful weekend with some amazing women from Atlanta Unity North at their women's retreat. Wow. It was quite something. I did a keynote presentation, and then an hour and half workshop, using my songs of course. These women were brave and had the biggest, most wide-open hearts I've ever run across. It was terrific.

Let's see....I was home for one night, picked up Dennis, and we left for Chicago, then Kansas City, where I participated in a Speaker's Showcase for Five Star Speaker's Bureau. That was really cool, too. There are some very talented speakers out there in the world.....ok, and a few rather dry and boring ones too.....but all in all, I was blown away. I realize that my keynotes are not for everyone.....sometimes the addition of music sort of freaks people out...especially those business settings where they're used to rather dry and boring speakers!  But I've gotten a few nibbles already....most probably from the healthcare fields and women's groups, where I seem to fit in the best.

THEN, we were off to Nebraska, where we met up with our lovely friend Jennifer from the Nebraska Hospice Assoc., and we began our week long trek across Nebraska, doing the Gift of Hospice fundraisers, and a couple of other programs along the way. I love Nebraska! Good people there. (Seems that there are good people everywhere....ain't that grand?)

I caught some nasty bug along the way, towards the end, but made it through every gig, then gave my bug to Dennis, who has since given it back to me. We are such a sharing and giving couple!

My Mama is a mess still....more so.....and yet she is still, very often, my funny, charming Mama. My daughter Rachael was home for several days. She's gorgeous, loving the Art Institute in Atlanta, and wanting to stay there. I am praying for more hit songs and more keynotes and church gigs to be able to help her do just that!!!

And to you, my precious friends............I am wishing the JOYS of the season, and none of the CRAP. Please take care of yourselves....physically, and emotionally.....and spiritually. (I keep forgetting that last one, and I get in big trouble every time!)

Big Holiday hugs and kisses......please keep in touch.

xxx

ktg

I apologize, profusely, for not writing this September entry until today, Sept 27th.  I had some technical difficulties with my website, and they were just resolved. Therefore, I think I'll make this my September/October entry!

I've been traveling a good bit. Just got back from Unity Village, where the New Thought Music Awards were held. It was great to hang out with my peers and friends. They are quite amazing. If you have all of MY music, and are looking for other meaningful, great stuff, check out these people: JD Martin, Peter Mayer, Greg Tamblyn, David Roth, Greg Greenway, Tom Kimmel, Jana Stanfield, Faith Rivera, Jan Garret.....for starters! Google them, or write to me if you can't find them.

Then we were up in Wisconsin, which is becoming like my second home. It was beautiful up there.....very fall-like, which was a JOY after such a hot August in Nashville!

I'm off to Colorado here in a few days. I'll be doing this trip on my own....Dennis has his own golfing adventure planned. It's so much easier on me when he's traveling with me....but then again, I do feel more like an adventurer when I'm solo. I may even try a GPS system for the first time. Lord help me figure it out!!

Life is good here.  Rachael is making her own life in Atlanta, and spending some time in North Carolina with friends. ??? I haven't been made privy to that info yet.  My Mom is a mess. She has made up a terrible, not true story about her caregiver, who is my life saver....and never wants to see her again.  For some reason, she forgets everything else, but she's not forgetting this. I'm scrambling around trying to find other helpers, for I am out of town a lot these next few months. 

THE NEW SONGBOOK is completed! It's really lovely.....please check it out if you're looking for good music to play and sing yourself.

That's it for now. I send my love to each of you. Get your flu shot (if you believe in them), eat your chicken soup (unless you're a vegan) and be good to yourself. You are in my thoughts.

xxxx

karen

Hey everybody,

It's August!  I don't know what it's like where you are, but here in Nashville, it is HOT. I mean, really HOT. And did I mention, it's HOT??? I can't remember ever having this many 100+ degree days here. And, it's not like El Paso where I grew up. We had lots of 100 degree days there.....but there was no humidity. Here.....it's hard to breathe!! Oh whine, whine, moan, complain.....OK, I feel better now. Thanks for listening.

So.....what else? I took my precious 91 year old Mama up to Detroit for a family reunion. God Bless my husband Dennis for coming with, or I couldn't have handled it. The great news is, she was a star.....the honored elder....and she was loved on so much. We have a very wonderful, affectionate family. For a week afterwards, that's all she could talk about....however, our two day trip to Detroit became a week long trip to Canada? in her mind.....and now....three weeks later, she does NOT remember going, and got really scared and freaked out when I assured her that she had. 

I'm finally taking my own advice, that I've been dispensing to others for several years, and going to an Alzheimer's/dementia support group. I just need help knowing how to do this better.

My travel schedule is about to pick up again.....I'm actually looking forward to it quite a bit. I mean....what's not to love? I get to share my music with amazing people, get to travel to different spots and see new things, I get paid to do this....AND my Mama can't grasp that a CELL PHONE comes with me when I leave town, so I get a respite from the constant phone calls. (Bet you can tell that I need to find a support group, eh? This is really hard stuff to deal with. )

Rachael is doing well in Atlanta. I miss her terribly......have not touched her room....we just keep the door shut. I guess some day I might do something with the space!

LOTS of new songs. Please be on the lookout for a new CD. I'm going to do one as a "pre-release" without all of the expensive paper stuff....and it will cost less. I can't wait til you hear them!

Did you receive my email blast about the Radical Empowerment Cruise? Come cruising with me and Dennis and the amazing Colin Tipping, creator of Radical Forgiveness and Radical Empowerment. He's one of my favorite teachers....his work is powerful, and last year's cruise was fantastic. The cruise is in February.....the Mexican Riviera. Go visit Colin's website to learn more: www.radicalforgiveness.com. He'll even help you manifest the money to come! Tell them I sent you, then join us for a beautiful, transformational week.

And that's about it for my life. For now. It's too hot to write more. (whine, whine) I love you dear friends.....thank you for stopping by.

Big HOT kisses and hugs........

ktg

Hi Folks,

Happy July! Things are interesting here in the Good household. Rachael has moved out, for real....this is the first time she ever took her bed with, so it certainly feels final. She's starting school in Atlanta this month. I am happy for her.....she'll be 24 on the 22nd of this month, so I know she needs her own life. It sure does feel strange to look into her room tho. Isn't being a parent a weird thing? This is why we raise them....so they can leave! I might have preferred the old days, when everybody hung around the farm....maybe built separate houses on the property?

At any rate.....what else is new? I've been writing a lot, and some really amazing songs. I'm grateful for my wonderful co-writers, and to God for allowing me to receive these songs. I can't wait to share them with you.

My husband Dennis, my love, will be SIXTY FIVE next month. Good grief! How did that happen? He thanks those of you who will be paying for his retirement! My Mama is hanging in there. Her broken foot has healed, and I am again amazed at the human body. Even 91 year old bones can heal! Great work, oh Creator. You rock!

I've been feeling the presence of my Daddy more lately. (He made his transition in 2005). He sends me money on my morning walks. I walk the same route, and there is always money there for me. This morning was a 27 cent morning! 

I continue to be blessed by my family....my stepson Tim and my daughter-in- law Lisa.........and my family of friends.....Merri, Sparky, Ta......I just don't know what I'd do without them.

And I am blessed by you...........you have no idea what it means to me that you are taking your valuable time to read this, and to listen to my music. I am sending each of you a great big cyber hug. Be well. Be gentle with yourselves. Laugh often. Sleep soundly. 

I love you,

Karen

Dear Friends,

Happy June! I just returned from yet another Pozipaloosa tour...these were in Florida, and they were wonderful. The next batch I get to participate in are in North Carolina and Virginia. Please check my schedule, AND check this website for details:  www.itoiministries.org

While I'm on a roll here, I want to also turn you on to www.radicalforgiveness.com   That's my friend Colin Tipping's website. We are doing another Radical Forgiveness/Radical Empowerment CRUISE in Feb. Please come. We had an amazing time last year. Colin's work is so powerful, and the combination of his work and my music is quite something.

What else can I share with you? I've been writing a good bit.....songs, AND I'm working on a book with my dear friend Liz Sheahan. We got together in the Wisconsin Dells a few weekends ago, and wrote and brainstormed and wrote some more. We also had an amazing time playing! We ended up in a local restaurant/bar for dinner one night, and were there as they began.....yes...their karaoke set!  Well....Liz said she'd give me a dollar if I would sing "How Can I Help You Say Goodbye", which I wrote of course. I had a few more sips of my drink, and I did it!! Too much fun. Of course, Liz was telling the waitresses that I wrote it....and I'm pretty sure nobody believed her, but they did think I sang it quite well!!

I haven't been meditating lately....and it shows. I am promising myself here and now, publicly, that I will clean out my sweet meditation space down in the basement, and begin again. It's so important, and yet I allow myself to get out of the habit. Ah well.....shall not beat myself up!

And I hope that you are not beating yourself up.....and I hope that you are giving yourself some meditation/quiet/prayer time. I really believe that God sends us messages during those times........and we just won't get them if we don't allow that space and time and SILENCE. 

I love you.....thank you for caring enough to come and check this page out. Be well..........take good care of yourselves.....remember that your picture is up on God's Refrigerator!

xxx

karen

It's MAY, it's MAY.....the lusty month of May!! .....Sorry....I slipped into one of my favorite movies of all time........Camelot!! Don't know that I'm feeling the "lusty" part, truthfully! But May it is, and summer is a comin'.

I just did a Pozipaloosa up in Kansas City and Wichita. Met a new friend...the amazingly talented Peter Mayer. He and my good buddy David Roth and I were "in the round". I highly recommend these Pozi shows (positive music) if there is ever one in your area....check it out! Some great songwriters, musicians, and beautiful hearts.

My mama broke her poor little foot. We had a few very bad days....pain killers and dementia are not a pretty combination. I'm grateful that she didn't break a hip. She's getting used to wearing the big, cumbersome "boot", and using the walker. (I had wondered why I wouldn't give away my daddy's walker!) I'm also very grateful to the kind, patient people who work at her assisted living facility. It takes a very special kind of person to work with all of those beautiful/demanding/interesting old folks!! God bless them.

Happy Mother's Day to all who fit the category. I'm looking forward to honoring MY Mama, and to being honored myself, frankly! Being a mother is a tough gig. When your world is falling apart and you need someone to blame....yup! It's all HER fault! I've done it to my own sweet Mama, and I've had it done to me. Ouch. Oowie. Hurts. Wonder why we do that?

May your Mother's Day be joyous. If your mother is gone, if she wasn't a great mom........may you forgive her. If she's still here, my wish for you is that you know that she did her best, and may you forgive her. And if YOU are a Mother, please know that you have done your best, and may you forgive yourself.

Have a wonderful May, my dear friends. May we all find a bit of the "lustiness" therein!!

I love and appreciate you so much,

ktg

Happy Easter! Happy Passover! Happy April!

Hi dear friends,

Is Spring a wonderful time, or what? I truly love it. I've been hearing, from Esther Hicks and Abraham, about how being in a state of GRATITUDE is the closest we come, ever, to being in our natural state.....and how when we ARE in that state, we are wide open to receive all of the gifts the Universe has lined up for us....gifts that we may be holding away from ourselves by unconscious negativity.  I get that today. I am all alone in my sweet house, just being overcome by a sense of well-being and gratitude.

I wish I could bottle this feeling, right now, so I could recapture it when I am in the dumps.....which happens WAY too often. So I'm trying to analyze WHY I'm feeling this way. OK.....I did go to a high energy water aerobics class this morning. That must have something to do with it. AND, I came home and ate really well (fresh steamed veggies, fresh fruit), and in alignment with what I have promised myself I'd eat in order to lose those nasty 10 pounds that crept up on me this winter. So...........All of that makes sense. Exercise my body....check! Eat good natural, healthy stuff. Check! KEEP MY WORD, to myself especially. Check!  Hot dog! I might be on to something here!

Those of you who have signed my guestbook lately.......bless you. Your entries always lift me up, and encourage me to keep on doing what I'm doing.

By the way, it just occurred to me that since my favorite book these days is called "Ask and it is Given", that I should actually share what's up in my life, and possibly even..........uh................duh............ASK!!  I'm raising money to start Song Guru Enterprises. I'll have over 400 songs in the publishing company, my CDs and books will be in there, as well as some exciting new projects. I plan on making my investors a LOT of money, while we change the world, one song at a time!

So........if you're interested, please send an e-mail to my dear husband Dennis, who is captaining the investment piece. dennis@karentaylorgood.com  

I send you SO much love, sweet friends. Thank you, thank you, for appreciating my music. I don't know what I'd do without you. May this Spring season be one of renewal for your spirit and your soul.

I love you,

Karen

Hi my dear friends,  

Happy March to you! I had a totally wonderful beginning to this month. Dennis and I were in Key West, staying with our lovely friend Margarita. She lives right on the water, in a very peaceful spot 15 miles up from the town. I got to commune with nature in a BIG way. I saw more pelicans on this trip than I ever have.....and up quite close and personal! (I have a major thing about pelicans!) Our friend Pedro introduced us to the giant Tarpons (big fish, if you're like me and didn't have a clue) that live right outside his back door in the canal. He feeds them and they go crazy! There were many Ibises (lovely white big birds with long curved thin beaks) who would line up on the telephone wires....and seagulls, and doves and heron.  We ate fresh fish that Margarita had just caught, and lobsters that she caught and froze last lobster season. Oh yum. And Paco the Parrot invited me, for the first time in 5 years, to pet his head! (This invitation came immediately after he bit me. I love you Paco, but you might be just a touch bi-polar!)

So....I am refreshed and renewed, and ready for Spring! I'm grateful that Mercury is not longer retrograde, too. That is ONE aspect of Astrology that I'm quite sure is for real. Communication becomes very difficult, nobody calls you back, deals get stuck on hold.....it's frustrating! AND, that's over for now, thank goodness. I'm already seeing things begin to flow again, and I'm grateful.

I'm actually grateful for LOTS of things in my life. I find that making a (mental or written) gratitude list is a surefire way of getting out of a funk...which I find myself in quite a bit, I'm afraid. So.....I'm grateful for my talents, for my husband, for my child, for my Mama, for my family and my friends....and for YOU, for taking your valuable time to visit me here.

Please accept a great big cyber hug from me. Be well. Be happy. Be GRATEFUL.  I love you.

xxxx

Karen

Dearest Friends,

February, 2007.......and life continues to SPEED by. Does it still go by slowly when you're young? Or has it sped up for everyone? Feel free to comment in the guestbook if you have any insights there, please!

My precious stepson Tim lost his Mama this morning. I would appreciate your prayers and thoughts for him......Tim Good. He is such a fine man. He brought his mom, Judy, and his grampa John to live with him here in Nashville about a year ago. Judy had early onset Alzheimers. She was only 63. Grampa is 97. Tim and his amazing wife, my dear daughter in law Lisa, have been caring for the two of them. I have learned so much from watching them. It's pretty wonderful to SEE unconditional love in action.

So.............about this strange, challenging and wondrous thing we call LIFE...it's pretty intense, isn't it? I'm sure it's supposed to be, all part of the Plan, etc.......AND, it can be quite a ride.

My wish for you this month is that you enjoy this ride called Life.....that you find friends, loved ones, pets, to be with and to share your joys and sorrows. I find myself very, very grateful today for all of those souls who are sharing MY journey. 

Thank you for being among them. Be well. Sleep. Breathe. Laugh. 

I love you....................

xxx

karen

January, 2007

A brand new year. Wow. My wish for you.........may your 2007 be filled with new adventures, lots of self-love and appreciation, lots of gratitude, much forgiveness for yourself and others, prosperity, a peaceful mind and heart, and excellent health.

Actually, that list pretty much covers MY wishes for 2007, too! Big news coming........Dennis and I will celebrate our 25th Anniversary on Feb. 14th. We're still trying to come up with come special way to mark that day.

I was named "New Artist of the Year" in the UK........I had three #1 singles on their New Christian Music charts.......which is pretty wonderfully weird if you think about it!

I am now officially The Song Guru.....my goodness, the US Patent and Trademark office does NOT make the process easy. You REALLY gotta want it! I also have secured Thesongguru.com, and Song Guru Music Publishing. I'm working on the Song Guru radio show........what's next? Song Guru soap? Song Guru cereal? 

I've been song writing quite a bit here lately, which brings me great joy. I've gotten so busy traveling in the last few years, I wasn't doing much writing. What else can I tell you? My mama is doing ok.....cannot remember anything, but other than that and her eyesight, she's hanging in. Rachael is having some struggles. It's strange how much we can hurt when our children hurt, isn't it? It doesn't do them a bit of good, either. I trust that she will find her way. She is an amazing, precious child.

And how are YOU, dear friend? Let me know. Drop me a line. I do read my guestbook entries every few days. I'm going to learn to blog here soon.

I love you. Thank you for caring. Be well, and treat yourself gently. Happy New Year!!!

xxxx

karen

Happy, happy December to you. May your days be merry and bright....no, wait, that's already been done. So hard to be original these days! How's this......may you remain calm and peaceful and find joy in friends and family in the midst of the insanity that is the holiday season??? I like that. Dennis and have threatened many times to go on a cruise for three weeks and skip the whole thing! Someday, I suppose we will, but that day is not yet here, so for now, I will do my best to remain calm and peaceful and find joy in family and friends, ....etc, etc.

Just got back from a great trip to New York City. I took my daughter Rachael with me......it was her first Big Apple experience. What fun to see the city through the eyes of someone seeing it for the first time! We stayed with my precious cousin Alan, who lives in lower Manhattan, which was wonderful. We saw Wicked on Broadway. Oh my. How amazing it is!! Just absolutely brilliant, that's all I can say. I wish I had written it, and it inspires me to work on a musical before I die. 

Rachael and I had our challenges, as I did those maaaaaaaaaaaaany years ago when I was first "individuating" from my parents, and found myself in their company. It's tricky stuff, and we worked through it quite admirably, I thought. She was delightful company, and she braved family dinners and my SESAC writer's night performance, and a trip to a live radio show for an interview at 1am!! (We went in our P.J.s and bedroom slippers. Rachael's idea, and a great one!)j

This month is all about getting our business plan together. FYI, I am taking the publishing bull by the horns and raising money to start a kick-butt music publishing company. I have 400+ songs which have never been heard. They are like these precious golden eggs that I labored over and laid, but never got around to hatching them and allowing them to LIVE! I'm looking forward to continuing to put out powerful music that allows people to feel and heal and laugh and cry............and looking for bigger and better ways to get it out to the world! 

Also, I'll be working with my dear friend Colin Tipping, and we'll be putting together some audio/video clips....Colin's work is so powerful, and the way he uses my music to enhance his work is quite brilliant. So, Mr. Radical Forgiveness and the Song Guru will be going on the road.....the cyberspace road!

Be well my dear friends. PLEASE remember to take some quiet time for yourselves during this crazy season. Remember to put YOUR oxygen masks on first. Remember to nap when you need to.....and it's perfectly alright to disappear into your own space in the midst of large family gatherings! I do it all the time, and people rarely notice!

Merry Christmas. Happy Chanukah. Joyous Kwanzaa! Ho Ho Ho.

I love you, and appreciate you..............

Karen

Dearest Friends,

It's already mid-November, and I apologize for just now getting to this. I have been on the road since Oct. 31st. I've had some wonderful travels. Went from Nashville to Wisconsin to Florida to Nebraska. I'm home for one day and off to Florida again. Then I'll be home until the week after Thanksgiving. I'll be in New York City, performing, doing a radio show, and my precious daughter will be traveling with me! I am really excited about that. I don't think that Rachael and I have ever done a road trip, just the two of us. 

This will be a short message, and I promise to do better and be more prompt in my December greetings. I have to go unpack so I can pack again!

I have been doing lots of Hospice Fundraisers, and meeting some of the most amazing people along the way. I'm so proud to be associated with Hospice. If you DON'T know much about Hospice, please do some research. It's a great place to donate your resources and your time, AND, it's so comforting to know that when you or your loved ones are ready to leave this life, you will NOT have to do it alone. They are truly angels.

That's it for now. Please have a fine Thanksgiving. I am giving thanks for YOU, caring enough to be in my life. That's pretty wonderful. 

Thank you. Breathe. Take care of YOU.........don't get overwhelmed with Holiday stuff. You are in my thoughts.

Love and hugs,

KTG

Hello my dear Friends,

How can it possibly be mid October already? I swear the earth is spinning faster and faster every year. It could be, no? Oh well. Please forgive my lateness in writing this.

Happy October!! Hope you have fun plans for Halloween. I'll be in Wisconsin.....and I'll have be wearing the Goofy & Minnie hats I just bought at Disneyland!! I must say.....I had the best time there. My dear friend Ta and I spent two whole days just playing and being silly. It was amazing, and fun, and we managed to walk off ALL of the junk that we ate! Gotta eat junk at Disneyland! Anyhow....."it's a small world after all.....it's a small world after all....la la la la............" Hope I gave you an earworm too, since I've had one ever since that ride! We did Space Mountain by accident. Oh my. Never would have ridden it had we known what it was!!! Spent a day at California Adventure, too, which is the newer park right next to Disneyland in CA. Some terrific rides there. 

I am reminded of how important it is to PLAY sometimes. Please remember that, and take time for yourself. It renewed my outlook, my spirit, my whole body. Yipeee!  

Things are good here. I had a wonderful time with my sisters in ABWA out in Anaheim. What a great bunch of women. Then had a great time in Salt Lake City at the Hospice Conference there. I love my Hospice family and those Utah mountains are amazing! 

My next adventure will be the Radical Forgiveness Cruise. I'm so looking forward to that. Being around Colin Tiping and weaving my music in around his work is just the best. Very good for my soul. 

And so.....until we next speak..........remember to PLAY. And breathe. And give yourself credit for making it this far on this life journey.

I love you,

KTG

Dearest Friends,

Happy SEPTEMBER!! 

I am completely thrilled that there is a hint of Fall in the air. Enough of this hot summer already!!

I just got back from my first visit to Amelia Island, FL. What a special place. What special people. Thanks to my friends Mark and Donna for arranging these expanded "house concerts". If you would like to offer your community a special night of music, let's tawk!!

My precious Rachael has moved to Huntsville, AL for now. I miss her energy in the house (OK, it's also quite a bit calmer, but I DO miss her a lot!) My Mom is hanging in......short term memory gets shorter each day. She still knows my phone number tho! Calls me a lot, and that's OK. I'm honored to be her go-to person. (Alright, some days after phone call number 15, I might get a bit exasperated, but I do so adore her.)

Please note..... THE RADICAL FORGIVENESS CRUISE. October 22-29.  I'll be there, providing music for my friend and amazing healer and teacher Colin Tipping. His Radical Forgiveness work is powerful stuff. It has helped me immensely, and he uses my music in such beautiful ways. Dennis and I will be there. Hope you will be too. Check out www.radicalforgiveness.com.

What else can I share? "On Angel's Wings", the single, is out to radio.  If you have any room in your prayer lists, would you please put that song in there? It needs to get past the "gate keepers" and just be heard, and then all will be taken care of. AND, if you do hear it on your favorite radio station, please call them and tell them how much you appreciate them for playing it!

As always, I appreciate you checking in here. I LOVE your guest book entries...can't tell you how many times they pull me up and keep me going. Let me know what's going on with you. Be well......breathe......do you know how adored you are???

So much love to you,

karen