carlajpatterson

Voice - my most reliable and beautiful instrument. I'm classically trained (first as a coloratura soprano and then my voice started moving towards lyric - now I can sing mezzo and soprano) but, before that, I sang jazz (a lot of scatting and improvising) - my Dad was a tenor sax man and I grew up on Gerry Mulligan, Sarah…

I would agree with you if it weren't for the fact that physical therapists at Kaiser (which is where I have my medical care) seem to have a remit, these days, to help you for a short time and then give up on you. YMMV, obviously, but it has biased me a bit over the years. I'm glad you brought this up, though, because one…

P.S. When I say chiropractor, I mean the kind I have - don't know how rare mine is, though! She doesn't 'crack' anything on me. She is a practitioner of adjustments and deep tissue manipulation, very gentle. If it weren't for her, I wouldn't be able to walk now. (I tore my achilles tendon and the doctor told me to stay off…

I agree about seeing a chiropractor and would add that another good person to see would be an acupuncturist (and/or someone who practices Chinese medicine). I have severe fibromyalgia, arthritis, and hypersensitive nerve endings and one of the outcomes from all of that is that I tear muscle fiber easily but it's very hard…

I'm a diabetic so I have to make sure I eat enough to avoid lows (I'm insulin-dependent). While gigging, I am on such a high, and so focused outwards (to the people I'm gigging with and/or the audience), that I can easily forget to eat all day/all night. Even when I was doing an internet improv show once a week from HOME,…