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title: "Journaling: I Now Sing in Public Every Chance I Get"
description: Mari L. McCarthy shows how Journaling helped her retrieve her singer and helped her create her third album, Lady With A Song.
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# Journaling: I Now Sing in Public Every Chance I Get

Tag - [Journaling Therapy](https://www.createwritenow.com/journal-writing-blog/topic/journaling-therapy), [Creative Journaling](https://www.createwritenow.com/journal-writing-blog/topic/creative-journaling)

Author - [Mari L. McCarthy](https://www.createwritenow.com/journal-writing-blog/author/mari-l-mccarthy)

Published - April 1, 2015

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[![Lady_With_A_Song_Cover-1](https://www.createwritenow.com/hs-fs/hubfs/blog/Lady_With_A_Song_Cover-1.jpg?width=210&name=Lady_With_A_Song_Cover-1.jpg)](http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/marilmccarthy10)Thanks to Journaling, I uncovered, discovered and recovered my contralto singer, still take lessons (so does Tony Bennett, age 88), practice every day and…

This week, I released my third album,[**Lady With A Song.**  ](http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/marilmccarthy10)

Thanks to[ Journaling,](https://www.createwritenow.com) I remembered my childhood passion for music: I glued myself to my transistor radio and played my red-speckled phonograph incessantly. My mom introduced me to "the standards" like Cole Porter and Frank Sinatra. She taught me their lyrics and we danced them in our kitchen. We had a long-running repartee about my musicality: "Oh, mom, I wish I could sing," I'd lament. Her response: "Oh, honey I wish you could too!"

Thanks to my Journaling, when I turned 50, I wrote down in my goals list that I'd take voice lessons. And so it goes in my life, when I set my goals, the universe provides avenues and options. One day in my local newspaper, an article about the Kingston School of Music, a school for students of all ages, showed up.

At my new school, I found some familiar faces. Their names were Inner Critics, equal opportunity creativity destroyers. Fortunately, having experienced their gyrations in my writing life, I had the skills to deal with them. Best plan of action--sing every day. Of course, that meant listening to my voice (Oh, Yuck). I taped all my classes and forced myself to pay attention. In time, I learned how to confront myself compassionately and discovered how relaxing and healthy breathing was and that water drinking not only made me a better singer but a far less wrinkled one.

A year later, I debuted in my school recital performing Frank Sinatra's "All the Way" (thanks for the introduction, mom). When I sang on stage, I traveled to another world. I think it is called an "out-of-body experience." I called it my cosmic home.  After, my teacher Dorothy asked, "How did it go?" "Were you scared?" "No way," I answered, "When's the next recital?"

Two years later, I recorded my first CD of *All the Way *and* Winter Wonderland. *This year my creative collaborator, arranger, and producer Perry Rossi and I will celebrate 10 years working together by releasing an updated CD.

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*[**Lady With A Song** ](http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/marilmccarthy10)is a journal: I share songs of my music journey from the day I discovered my vocal talents (All The Time) to the day I became a real singer (I’ve Gotta Be Me).

And yes, my mother who art in heaven and I continue our musical dialogue. I tell her, "Mom, I know I can sing," and she tells me, "Oh, honey, I know you can too."

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