Sara Hickman

Rockin’ out with the Girl Scouts!

“Press start, let’s dance!” And so it goes, listening to a young, enthusiastic and raw energy called ROSA while sitting in Houston at my best friend, Julie’s, house. Her son, […]

I was a speaker/performer at the RCB (Redirecting Children’s Behaviour) National Convention here in Austin. Oh, it was a marvelous time! I was thinking about lists. I thought I’d make […]

Number 117, Paul Heller, came up to say hello, and that was how he introduced himself, “Hi, I’m number 117!” Let me say there is something incredibly moving about this […]

I was at my mailbox, checking through the mail, when I spied a letter written in pencil, addressed to me. I slipped my finger under the back flap and gently […]

I’m performing two shows on November 12 with Strings Attached. The second show will be broadcast live on KGSR…I’m hoping y’all will come out and cheer us on as I […]

Bless this Whole World. Today and everyday. Right now. Make each of us shine and help us to enjoy the fact that we are ALIVE and we can bring peace […]

(Dial tone…sounds of buttons being pressed…ringing…ringing…ringing..) Hello, Mr. Kerry? Are you listening? Cuz we hope you hear us, somehow Mr. Kerry… Are you listening More than ever We need you […]

How is it that someone can look into the face of a child and create such terror without feeling any sense of moral outrage? How is it that our beautiful […]

Pancakes. Sausage. Bacon. The sun just peeking over the walls onto the flowering plumeria and the metallic stage area. Kids in yellow. Parents in yellow. Friends. Family. Singing. Dancing. Mac, […]

I’ve been going over to the Music Lab, renting a small rehearsal space, and attempting to write songs again…I don’t even remember the last time I had a quiet moment […]

Let me start with a fun story: Yesterday, io and I sat out in miniature red, blue and green plastic chairs (one for her shark and her yellow Neo pet, […]

This morning, I was driving iolana to pre-school, and I popped in a cd of a song I wrote for my mom. io sits directly behind me in her car […]

Angelface is a place where you can get a facial or massage in a wondrously calm environment by a woman with the most dewy, healthy face. This is the story […]

Beluga whales are gray when they are first born, to camoflouge the babies from killer whales and polar bears, their predators. They are about 150 pounds when born, and the […]

Rick Perry has got to go. I can not believe what is happening here in Texas. I am completely dumbfounded over the BETRAYAL of the governor towards the people. There […]

Every year around pledge drive, on KUT Public Radio at the University of Austin, I am a guest of John Aielli’s fantastic morning show, “Eklektikos”. We have lots of fun […]

This is what I have experienced in the last week: Spoke at Leon Springs Elementary for 200 teachers about “Living in the Light”. The theater had beach blankets and beach […]

I am reading the biography of Harriet Tubman. It is factual and clips along; not much fanciful storytelling by the author, but who needs a storyteller when you are reading […]

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here is a picture of me and my other co-horts from NARAS (national association of recording arts and sciences) on our way to the FCC community meeting in San Antonio […]

Are the two joined walking stick insects a male and a female, or a mother and child? There is a set of two that show up under my back porch […]