Sara Hickman

Ellen, I was thinking about how I’m trying to keep up with the blog cuz I really want to keep you up to date with everything a singer/songwriting mom has […]

A commentary from KERA: The Smallest School By Tom Dodge, KERA 90.1 Commentator DALLAS, TX (2006-03-22) Since Texas is at the bottom in educational funding, experts concentrate on money as […]

I would like to celebrate the release of Jill Carroll from the hands of her captors in Iraq. This is a great day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The grass is so lush and green from all the rain. Especially at the South Austin Little League fields where baseball games are in full swing. Last night, as I […]

I’ve been involved with Romanian orphans since 1992. I became involved because of an article I read in a Denver newspaper sitting in a Denver airport, waiting for a flight […]

This is Eric Langenhahn. He is the Takamine rep who provded me with my 3 new guitars! He owns New Braunfels Music in New Braunfels, Texas, and he is the […]

Hi, Ellen! Have you been searching to stand in the middle of 65 women of various shapes and sizes and colors and let them sing sacred, chanting songs with all […]

An e-mail from Barry and Bonnie in Oklahoma…. Hi Sara, I just had to write you a note about your performance last night in Tulsa. No, it is not to […]

It all started on March 8….no…wait, it started way before then, but that’s where we’ll pick up the continuing saga of song! So, Wednesday, March 8… I head over to […]

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Ok, Ellen, you know that cool game about Kevin Bacon? “Six Degrees of Separation from Kevin Bacon”? Well, I think there needs to be a new name for that game: […]

…that yesterday Jeff Goldblum got 15 new crickets in his cage. …that I finished cleaning house so I can go hang with some friends over breakfast and laughter this morning. […]

Whoo! I’m telling you. Has it really been almost a week since I wrote? You know what? How does ANYBODY have time to get their nails done? Mine always look […]

my sunday showcase… me and the astounding fiddle player, richard bowden… pic by winker

Ok, I’m sure some of you are wondering…who is Ellen and why do I keep addressing my blog entries to her? Well, I just thought it would be interesting to […]

that is phil parlapiano, me and dan navarro (of lowen and navarro) at my children’s show at folk alliance this weekend… phil and i wrote “stupid love” and he produced […]

Henri, the wonderful soul who named my DVD, has gotten married! She sends these pictures from Australia… what a sweetheart!!! We had a wonderful day — and being married is […]

Dear Ellen, I will go through backwards time to describe what has happened in the last few days. I’ll start with yesterday: SATURDAY, Feb 11 4:00 – 9:30 pm After […]

Hi, Ellen! My friend, George Marinelli, makes gum chewing an art. I saw him chewing away on your show the other day (he plays guitar with Bonnie Raitt), and I […]

Dear Ellen, Say, I hear you dance like no body’s business! I think this is exciting news. Yes, this is very good news! Good news for ME because, you see, […]

Dear God, In five hours, I will be in a taxi, heading towards the airport and a plane with my name painted on the side saying, “Come fly with me!”, […]

That’s how much fun I had at Rutymaya last night, with J.C. running sound, I felt like a million bucks up there, in the swirl of orange glow and moms […]

Pope Benedict XVI recently released his encyclical and wrote that the church has sometimes viewed sexuality as something “negative”. He declared that erotic love between married men and women is […]

Two kinds of gratitude: the sudden kind We feel for what we take, The larger kind We feel for what we give. Edwin Arlington Robinson So…. I’m putting yogurt and […]