It started out fantastic and then dipped to downright sadness and trailed to a beautiful slope of wonder……on June 3rd we put the sweet Ava Jean to sleep, as I may have already mentioned it was a mind blowing, wonderfully sad experience…she is at peace! RIP Ava Jean who passed on June 3rd.  On the same day, my friend, owner of Twincitiesradio.net JazzyJ passed away of cancer, we had an incredible celebration of his life on the following weekend, with dozens of musicians performing at his memorial, just as he would have Loved!!!

The evening went on and we all gathered at a local pub, to jam with all the various musicians. SADLY I had forgotten my camera at home, or you would see MANY More pictures up here…..I did a duet with Dan who had an Astonishing voice, then we each did some solo….everyone did 2-3 songs, the rest of the time was spent in the back courtyard talking about the wonderful experiences we’ve all had with JazzyJ….. On JUNE 6th, my husband and I celebrated our 13 yr wedding anniversary AND our grandaughters One Year Birthday, and then later that evening as I was picking around on my guitar, I heard one howl from LuCi and then silence….less than an hour later, LuCi had given birth to 5 Wonderful Kittens!!!!

We lost #5, the runt, 5 days after he was born….I named them 1, 2 , 3 and 4…in the order of their wonderful and prob. scary entrance into my Closet Laundry Basket……Of course LuCi has moved them 2x since and they are currently under my bed…OF ALL PLACES!!!!!  They are growing SO fast and so BIG…all of them have the Multiple toes and of course, the Maine Coon/Bob cat traits….curly tails, bobbed tails and lots of toes……   A few days after they were born, the world lost another great soul, Drew Stein who was a victim of 9/11 and passed….adding to the number of 9/11 related deaths…you can see more on his Facebook page…… It’s been a truly crazy June with 5 birthdays, fathers days and graduations….as well as my Son and his family visiting before they take the big Move to GERMANY….my Son is in the Air Force…

I’ve been asked to write a song for a Powerful and Gripping story by Jane Devin called “Elephant GirL” her story line and words inspired me and to be honest, moved me quite a bit more than I had expected. This woman has a way with words that seem to wrap their fingers right around your soul and there is no doubt of the power of her warm grip….  “Janes Blog”……   Meanwhile I’ve been performing A LOT and have been fortunate enough to be released in a fantastic Press Release by ‘TheStage.TV’… PRESS RELEASE where I am mentioned, as some of you know, the spotlight player IS on my website….. you can check out ‘thestage.tv’ here…. there is Much talent on here and it all follows the theme of an Open Mic….it’s not NEW, but t’s just coming into it’s own, after a couple years. I find myself on there from time to time giving some new songs a test drive and keeping the old songs in a present form, trying to keep up with myself actually.    New songs in the works and ‘DiRTY CRiMES” and “iNDiGO ROAD” seem to be getting a nice dose of LOVE from my fans…you can check these and more out on my YouTube Page (SuzenJueL) all one word, and I would GLADLY put the link up, but I keep getting an error….so You might hve to just search

I hope all of you dear readers are having a fantastic summer.  My projects are piling up and I really should get the balls rollin’ on the freeway of thought here. Much peace to you ALL!  You can see some photos of my recent Performance at MENDO BERRI as well as the amazing kittens I’ve been trying to capture  FLICKR for Suzen

Back in 1993/1994 I was quite new to the scene. A wonderful photographer ‘Adam’ Took this, in Minneapolis, as a promo for “Without My Wings”

Twincitiesradio.net and MJ Kroll hosted this Live Performers Showcase in Minneapolis at the Studio!

again, back in 1994, not sure what the significance of the baby hangers were, LOL

2009 TwinCitiesRadio.net

During the Broadcast

Last nights performance with TwinCitiesRadio.net and A440 Studios along with
MJ Kroll as our lovey host,
went GREAT.
Had me a little star struck with all the lights,
and giant silver Umbrellas.
There were people from A400 Studios, camera people,
snapshots being taken,
a whole production,
stage set up, all to Present 4 Musicians,
who are listed on the Twin Cities Radio show.
It was a thrill to perform with such great talent
and the studio staff and
radio were both generous and helpful setting us up.

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