The Hardest Thing To Learn

by tatiana | Jun 8, 2020

It’s been quite a week!I drove my son Blais to the first day of band mini-camp, which has been modified for the pandemic and also moved around because of a prayer vigil held in our town for George Floyd.Blais was sad that the camp was reduced to only three hours a...

Art That Will Melt Your Heart

by tatiana | Jun 1, 2020

Here is to the Class of 2020! Here is to every child (and every grown-up) who’s ready to fly. Here’s to my son Evan Amadeus, who learned so early in his childhood that living life comes with taking the falls and tumbles, bleeding through the cuts (and not just the...

Accepting The Changes Around You

by tatiana | May 25, 2020

“Everything IS already different,” I said to my youngest son Blais, on a recently tough day.It will never be ‘back to normal’. It may be ‘forward’ to a more normalized life, but definitely not ‘back.’Because we are 62 days older than we were when this started for us....

Four Tools You Can Use For Overwhelm

by tatiana | May 18, 2020

I was sitting on my back deck drinking coffee with David, enjoying a warm May morning and watching the wind move through the maple trees. The low, lacy clouds trailed along like dandelion seeds. It was one of those moments that was so intensely beautiful and so...

Joy Can Heal The Darkness

by tatiana | May 11, 2020

“Your song brought me so much joy” was the most common comment for my “Hajde da ludujemo 2020 – Tajci & Friends” video that we released last week.“Your song brought me so much joy and I don’t even speak the language” was the second most common.The video was...

The 30-Year Anniversary of “Hajde Da Ludujemo”

by tatiana | May 4, 2020

Thirty years ago, on May 5th, I walked out onto the glassy, shiny stage to sing my already super-successful pop hit “Hajde da ludujemo” (Let’s Go Crazy).My whole country (which was Yugoslavia at that time) was watching and rooting for me. I was representing it at the...