It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.

Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically Im a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.

Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.

So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist.

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.