by Cybele | Mar 14, 2024 | 2024, Strings & Stories
Four weeks ago, just a couple days after sharing my Belle of the French Quarter story, something happened that reminded me just how quickly our lives can change from one moment to the next. I had a bad fall coming down a flight of stairs, busted my face against a door...
by Cybele | Feb 16, 2024 | 2024, Strings & Stories
First published in the Summer 2021 isssue of The Exponent II. There used to be a painting of me on display in Jackson Square in front of the St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans. The artist named it “The Belle of the French Quarter.” I suppose I should have been...
by Cybele | Feb 5, 2024 | 2024, Strings & Stories
Sometimes things happen in our lives that are really hard to talk about. They remain buried and hidden until the right prompt comes along. For me, that prompt came in February of 2021 when I decided, on a whim, to take an online writing class. The first assignment...
by Cybele | Jan 29, 2024 | 2024, Strings & Stories
I’m standing in the front corner of my 1st grade classroom. To my right, I can see out of the large windows onto the playground below where just minutes before I had been eating popcorn with my friends during recess. To my left, is the door to the hallway where my...
by Cybele | Jan 4, 2024 | 2024, Strings & Stories
Her opening notes pierced the shadows of the darkening sky and startled me like lightning strikes illuminating a barren landscape. More than sounds, more than beauty, what her bow pulled from the strings spoke of experiences more foreign to me than even her native...
by Cybele | Dec 17, 2023 | 2023, Strings & Stories
I went to three different public libraries this week to do some research for my book project. I wanted to find out what sorts of books about music the libraries currently have on their shelves in their children’s picture book section. I looked up the call number...
