Pam Mark Hall

Forty-one years ago this week, the Beatles played their famous last concert on the roof of their London headquarters.

The Beatles were a mess in that January of 1969. The recording of an album tentatively titled 'Get Back' was meant…

Pam Mark Hall's Summary of "Ignore Everybody and 39 Other Keys to Creativity" by Hugh MacLeod

I bought "Ignore Everybody"  by Hugh MacLeod the very day it was recommended by Derek Sivers on his blog.  Here's my…

Key Four:  "Good ideas have lonely childhoods.  This is the price you pay, every time.  There is no way of avoiding it."  ~ Hugh Macleod ~

One childhood summer at Y Camp, we repeatedly sang an old traditional spiritual around…

Key Three – Put the hours in.

“Doing anything worthwhile takes forever. Ninety percent of what separates successful people and failed people is time, effort, and stamina.”  ~ Hugh MacLeod

Oh, Hugh, we already know that.  It’s so simple.  If…

Key Two of "Ignore Everybody and 39 Other Keys to Creativity"
by Hugh MacLeod of gapingvoid.com

I'm reading and searching this book for outside-the-box creativity and marketing ideas for professional musicians.   Hugh has had unlikely success with his art and…

I bought "Ignore Everybody"  by Hugh MacLeod the very day it was recommended by Derek Sivers on his blog. 

I love it so far.  Don't bother to read it if you are offended by an occasional swear word…

I am perfectly imperfect - always wanting to be more than I am, but embracing the me I am and blessing what I have to share in this present moment.  ~ PMH


I want to be more than I am…

We are celebrating my mother's, Cora Lee Phillips, 81st birthday in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  She and I had a grand adventure here over forty years ago when we attended an "Up With People" conference.  All I remember is that…

                               Brother Mel








I was on lunch break when I took a "quick" detour into The Arts Company in downtown Nashville.  I felt nurtured as I viewed the beautiful paintings, sculptures and mixed media.   I took the elevator to the second…

    Photo by Jerry Chamberlain   And then I saw it! A sculpture of about 50 bikes wired together and hanging in front an aluminum garage door next to the entrance of the Arcade. "Please, oh please go…

I did a triple take! I spied a luminous vision while I waited for the light to change. Sitting there in front of Maggie Moo's enjoying ice cream on a gorgeous fall afternoon, were four elegant, laughing nuns with their…

This old woman inspires me. If she can play slide guitar with a light bulb on a street corner in front of a dumpster in Belarus, I have no legitimate excuses for not exercising my talents.

Oh, like everyone else…