By day, I am an Arts Administrator at a private college in Vermont, working with the guest artists on our Performing Arts Series.

Day and night, I am the wife of Jim Carroll (/members/mrmaple), a mother to our two-year old son, a musician, and a blogger.

I am continually inspired by people coming together across many miles, disciplines, cultures, faiths and beliefs through the arts. I have a particular interest in seeing the visa and taxation process improve for international artists visiting the United States, and eliminating that obstacle to global dialogue.

wdydwyd? Because for me, every performance feels like world peace; achieved in 2 acts, with a 15 minute intermission.

- Ensure children have the opportunity to thrive

- Use the arts to leverage positive change

Artists and Educators from around the globe!

You must be the change you want to see in the world.
--Mahatma Gandhi

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
--Jawaharlal Nehru

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage
--Mahatma Gandhi

If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.
--H. H. Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama

Peace is costly, but it is worth the expense.
--Kenyan Proverb

The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage that they did not know they had. Finally it reaches the opponent and so stirs his conscience that reconciliation becomes a reality.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
--Maria Montessori

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
--John Muir

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
--Pablo Picasso

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
--Pablo Picasso

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
--William Congreve, from The Mourning Bride

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
--George Eliot, from The Mill on the Floss

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
--Walt Whitman

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
--Henry David Thoreau

My music is best understood by children and animals.
--Igor Stravinsky

- U.S. (VT-home, NH, ME, MA, CT, RI, NY, NJ, PA, MD, WV, VA, DC, GA, FL, IL, MI, MN, NV)
- Canada (QC, ON, NS)
- Mexico
- Ireland
- Netherlands

Performing Arts
Visual Arts
Education
Families
Health
Humanitarian Crisises
Technology
The Environment
Making Connections
Weather and related Crisises

- English is my first language.
- Yo hablo un poco del Espanol tambien.
- Pardon, mais je no speak Francais
- And if you could see my hands, I also know a little bit of sign language (ASL).