Hello Friends!
Time has been such an odd thing this season.. It seems like it keeps dragging on, yet it's already the end of September and now I need to start packing! Xanterra has opted to hold off on…
Sep 26 2020
Aug 29 2020
Still here, still working
Greetings and salutations from Yellowstone!
I'm still here! Hurrah!! This is definitely not a year like any other and hopefully not like any to come. If you are planning on visiting the park, just know that it is not…
Jun 24 2020
Songbirds! 
Hello again from the Old Faithful Twilight Zone! It's a hot one today (at least for us - nearly 80 today in Old Faithful). I have been faithfully sanitizing our employee living quarters so that no one spreads disease. Keeping…
May 25 2020
Back at Old Faithful in the Twilight Zone
Greetings! Salutations! Happy Memorial Day. I have just made a new season's resolution of posting and visiting my site much more often! For the past 10 years I have been blessed with performing regularly and barely having to lift a…
May 13 2019
Happy 90 to Fritz Smith!
The Old Faithful Inn is back in full swing for the summer season of 2019. It hasn't felt like summer, as I think it has snowed more days than not since I've been back. But the sun has returned, bluebirds…
Jan 16 2019
Winter in Yellowstone during the government shutdown
Today there are finally lovely snow flakes finding their way from air to earth. This is winter number eight for me here at Snow Lodge, and I can't tell you how grateful I am to Xanterra that I am currently…
Apr 28 2018
Spring migration
Heading back to the park after an awesome journey to visit friends and family, an amazing course in a healing modality called Zero Balancing (www.zerobalancing.com), and a really nice recording sojourn in Austin Texas with David Lauterstein. We will have…
Mar 27 2018
Mid break
Greetings from the Northeast!
Hanging out with my folks for a bit after a really fun road trip visiting 3 National Parks and several friends. Winding up in an amazing community of Zero Balancers for a 4 day class…
Jan 22 2018
Happy Winter!
Here we are, halfway through our winter season in Yellowstone, and I am only writing to you now. It has been a really fun winter over here so far. We have a great winter staff, and we are feeling fortunately…
Aug 14 2017
Making up for lost time... a 5 page essay by Martha B
I just said goodbye to my quartet mates Tim and Colleen Tan and their girls after watching them play in the Big Sky Festival Orchestra. I believe that every other year the Lake String Quartet has parted ways, it's been…
Dec 6 2016
... And another request for transporter beams....
I believe posting from a little over half way on my journey from CT back to the park in December is becoming an annual tradition. Last year I was hemming and hawing about needing a bigger car. This year I…
Sep 5 2016
Back to the Faithful
It's been so great to be back playing at the Old Faithful Inn. I do miss the quartet dearly, but I also love being able to plug in my cello and create music on the fly as well as playing…