Laurie Gould -- Midlife Mom Songs

In a couple of weeks I will be heading to the recording studio to start work on my second album.   This is enormously exciting for me, but also a little scary, since it will once again involve an outlay of…

Yesterday was my birthday.   I was blessed with calls from family, sweet and thoughtful gifts and notes from friends, a lovely dinner out with dear friends followed by an equally lovely dinner out with my husband and our younger daughter…

I spent much of the past week trapped in a hotel room with a jacuzzi.

I was upgraded to the hotel room with the jacuzzi because a pipe burst above the room in which I was initially housed, so I…

OK:  it's my favorite of my holiday music videos.   It's also my ONLY holiday music video.   But in the words of my people:  what's not to like?

You can now find all my music videos on this website's new "videos"…

Air travel is such an odd experience.    Last Sunday I got on a plane in Boston (45 degrees) and got off in Kansas City (15 degrees).   On Tuesday I flew to Tampa (79 degrees); on Friday I returned to Boston…

My life last week:

Tuesday I braved the insanity that is Whole Foods two days before Thanksgiving.   Wednesday I hosted a latke party for nine, brined the turkey, made the beds for the first wave of houseguests, and cooked the…

Your next ringtone is ready right now--be the first kid on the block to get it!   Best part:   you'll never have to wonder whether the phone that's ringing is yours.

This file is ready for your iPhone:

You_forgot_ringtone_take_2.m4r

Or you…

These are the steps to follow should you find a bat flying around inside your house:

1.   Jump up and down and scream (recommended:  "A bat!  A bat!! A bat!!!)

2.   Calmly and rationally, take a moment to review what…

And here it is!   You can download the ringtone here to your iPhone:

Kegel_rington.m4r

Or listen and download it as an mp3 for your Android or whatever:

http://gouldtunes.com/ringtones

One brand-new, totally free, downloadable ringtone for you, every week for the entire  month?   What could be better?

To hear the ringtone, or to download it as an mp3 file (good for Androids and other non-Apple phones), click here:

 http://gouldtunes.com/ringtones/

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It is Halloween Night, just hours before Dia de los Muertos, and despite the mountains of candy I purchased this weekend, our doorstep has yet to be graced by a single trick-or-treater.   I think the word is out that truly…

The NSA, we have recently learned, is collecting all sorts of data about all sorts of things, including email accounts.   Senders, address lists, subject lines -- it's all fair game.  As explained in one Washington Post article, "Taken together…