Every time I update this page, I hope that I will start updating it daily. Well, that doesn’t happen because I’m busy living my life. Or my computer doesn’t work, or I don’t have internet, or I’m in an airplane… whatever. But right here right now, and things are a little haywire but I am really close to finishing up a new recording. Tryng to figure out the best way to release it. It is exciting because it is a recording made by me and the Hopefuls: John Boerstler, Jeff Ciampa, Jimmy Castoe, Larry Cook, Jen Miller and me… hopefully soon!

Meanwhile I’m still living in multiple places, mainly my car. Maybe next year I can settle on one place. We’ll see.

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Hola from Brooklyn… finally found a cool air-conditioned Wifi spot in my Prospect Heights area neighborhood… making plans, catching up, and taking a breath. So, hi there. Things are OK. I’ve been busy, I’ve been occupied, I’ve been having a memorable summer.Hope you have too. I’m trying to figure out how to get some more music out there this fall. It is a tricky business. I want to believe in it. My computer has a virus and I don’t have a vaccine. I need a new computer. I need some new underwear. I want to book more gigs. I have been traveling constantly. When I stay put a little, I freak out then relax then sleep. I am embracing the idea of new ideas. I recently asked if my heart was open and the answer was ‘YES.’ I am most grateful for that.

I don’t know how it became mid-July…I think I just woke up from Comfest… which was great fun, by the way… I played with Eric Nassau, Jen Miller, Tim Easton, the Wahoos, Barry Chern, Jason Quicksall, the Spikedrivers, and my beloved Hopefuls… I Doo-Dah’ed it for the 4th, had a birthday, visited Chicago, and now am back in Columbus with lil Addie and friends and playing out the summer. Good  good good times…

I am back from a wild ride spanning from NYC to Chicago to Columbus to Canada to NYC back to Columbus. The details rest in my heart and mind at this point. I am supposed to be working today, but they called me off. So now i’m catching up on the internet and watching Betty clean up the house. We are having guests this week. The sisters will reunite for a mid year picnic otherwise known as ComFEST. Of course if you are from Columbus you know this festival. It has the potential to be the greatest weekend of the year here. This will be my 13th year. I have participated in most of the last 13 years, although I skipped playing in 2000 and 2001 for reasons I just realized…’the life you save may be your own’ (Flannery O’connor)… loving thru the madness, picking up the pieces, finding places to put all these things; and my heart, though opened, still experiences fear… and the fear of losing something you just found, can be paralyzing.  So I’ll ride out the mayhem and remember that ‘clarity is freedom’ (St. Teresa of Avila)…

snapshots of time-frames, moving around, shifting into more comfortable spaces, trying to be helpful along the way;  who helps the helper, who teaches the teacher? it is a constant give and take and of course the more we give the more we get back. I read my journal from about a year ago : ‘sometimes I don’t know what kind of rest I need.’ very telling. still there. but still hopeful, still having dreams, still loving the energy exchange of music, still loving the ones who face it, dripping with humanity, still inspired, in love with being in love.

hearing everyday sounds as music… in the field. we keep working.

peace and abundance to you, m

A quick post to say hello… I am in Columbus for a little bit… this constant shifting has an interesting effect on me. I can’t say I’m in a rut. It feels like I am always re-adjusting, re-connecting, and then letting go. I am in touch with the idea of transcendence and its impact on humanity. My daily humanity, it seems, is affected by everyone and everything around me. The impact of these things is deeper than I can imagine. Sometimes it takes the loss of someone to realize the actual meaning of all this. Being in touch with my own humanity, and also my own mortality, feels so shaky sometimes.  I take it all for granted. I don’t know my own impact because I don’t realize the impact others have on me. Then, when the rug gets pulled out, all of a sudden, it comes as clear as  a thunderstorm. And I have to thank the ones who sacrificed so much, just for me to realize the simplicity of what it means to take care of each other in each moment. Keeping that spirit alive is the best way to remember and honor the ones we can only still know in our hearts.

A lot of people come to NY to really work it. For some reason, I seem to come here to relax, re-evaluate, re-organize, meditate, etc. I recorded the sounds of chimes and birds outstide my window on Bergen Street yesterday. Spring is finally here. The trees are thankful, so am I. I’m reading about how when some things end, others begin; i’m grateful for so much. I have good people around me. I feel a lot of pressure, I’m making friends with it. I have some fun performances on the horizon. I hope you can make it. I’m interested in keeping up with what you are doing  just as much.

here in Neenah, Wisconsin; taking a break to say helllllo… it just started snowing… traveling with Eric Nassau has been really fun so far; we were in Ashland last night at Northland College – a wonderful place, I even met a few Columbus-ites… was sad to miss the release of Paul Abbott’s Pocket full of Sunshine… I am on two tracks – an original I wrote with Paul called ‘Tumbleweed Rover’ and a version of Melanie’s ‘Brand New Key.’ The record is really cool, featuring an all-star lineup of Columbus musicians. Paul really got it together for the occasion. I heard the show was great. Try to find the record; I will be looking for my copy when I get back to Columbus in a couple weeks… oh gosh, they just opened the doors to the club I am playing at and an entire bar of people is staring at me typing on my laptop. I feel like a monkey. Gotta go. see you soon. xoxo megan

This has been fun. I popped back to Columbus this weekend for a couple Spikedrivers shows and also a Hopefuls gig at Dick’s Den. Jen Sygit came down from Michigan and played as well, and she was dynamite… followed by a Sunday of music at Lost Weekend Records, a house concert, and more recording, it was a packed weekend… not to mention still reveling in the loveliness of last weekend in Chicago with Karl Mullen!! And NYC’s Living Room mid-week… ok, enough gushing…

Next week Eric Nassau and I hit the road.  This is where we are going:

3/25/09 Joliet, IL : Chicago St. Pub: Megan and Eric Nassau

3/26/09 Madison, WI : The Alchemy: Megan P and Eric Nassau

3/27/09 Ashland, WI : Northland College : Megan P and Eric Nassau

3/28/09 Neenah, WI : Cranky Pat’s : Megan and Eric Nassau

3/29/09 Sheboygan, WI : Paradigm Cafe : Megan and Eric Nassau

3/30/00 Skokie: IL : Residence Hall – MP & eric Nassau

3/31/09 Chicago, IL : Red Line Tap : Megan and E Nassau with SExFIST

more to come, and FYI, Spikedrivers record release is the weekend of May 15 &16… we will be at Rumba Cafe and also playing the Nelsonville Arts and Music Festival that weekend, sharing the bill with Mr. Willie Nelson and many other wonderful artists.

see you somewhere!