Author: taraleigh

It’s been a moment since I last posted because I fell off my unicorn onto my sweet ass and landed smack in the middle of the village of Sucksville. I was lost on the intersection of PityParty Place and StuckInaRut Blvd and couldn’t find my map.  I looked down at my feet and saw I was wearing red ruby boots. Out…

I was talking to my soul sister Suzanne Boothby who is a writer and book coach extraordinaire and I said to her these words: “I am not a writer.” She looked me square in the eyes and lovingly said, “Yes you are. You write all the time. You have a blog, you’ve been published in the Huffington…

When I experienced my first Vermont winter,  much to my surprise and dismay it was really freakin cold and it got really freakin dark really freakin early. I know, I know, I shouldn’t have been surprised by this, but I was! Anyone who knew me thought that it was crazy that I would choose to live…

I knew that I wanted to somehow create a career in the music industry, but when I first started I had no idea what that looked like. My first gig was volunteering 16 hrs in exchange for a ticket at Gathering of the Vibes selling Merch. During that time I made some really great friends…

I used to think that I didn’t have time to have fun when I wasn’t at a festival or show. Festivals were Fun City and regular life was Lamesville Central. Life was happening all around me without me paying much attention to the present moments that were passing me by. I felt bored, trapped, tired, sick, in a…

When I go see live music it fills my life battery to the max. I know after a show or festival (after I’ve slept a lot)  I feel inspired and renewed from the experience. If you love live music as much as I do then you know that going to shows is just as important…

“You are a star in an otherwise bleak world.” I just received a check in the mail from a speaking engagement and workshop I presented and these were the words I found handwritten in the “for” section. I leaked a little awesome from my eyes because if I told the Tara from even 10 years…

I’m active on a couple of live music inspired Facebook Groups and I find there are often fights amongst the members about which band is number one in the scene. Moe., Umphrey’s McGee, The Allman Brother’s Band and The Disco Biscuits are no strangers to these types of attacks, but lately the main targets of these arguments…

Last week while I was in Portland, Maine to see Phish I was in a difficult situation that had me questioning if I was a good person. During the show I was having a really hard time getting into it. I know that the trick is to surrender to the flow, and I was doing…

“Not everyone can leave there job and f*ck rock stars until they get things for free, you get what you want and get to be a stupid hippy because you write and s*ck d*ck. not everyone can do that and we need doctors and people doing real work not just being groupies. some people need…