by Sandy Siegel Miller | Oct 13, 2026 | Music, Composers & Musicians
There are those moments of our lives—and I hope you’ve had many—when you sit back with a sense of wonder and say to yourself, “This is a dream come true!” Jon and I had one of those moments a few weeks ago. The moment came when our newest choir had its first...
by Sandy Siegel Miller | Oct 6, 2026 | Musings
Two things recently happened on the same day that I can’t stop thinking about. The first was an article in the New York Times, where psychologist Angela Duckworth, in her editorial, “I Study Successful People; They Have One Habit in Common,” wrote...
by Sandy Siegel Miller | Mar 10, 2026 | Health & Wellness
I’m the director of the Good Memories Choir, a program of Sounds Good Choir, created for people with dementia and their care partners to sing together. Eleanor, 79, is a caregiver for her older sister. They had been singing with Good Memories for a year before she...
by Sandy Siegel Miller | Mar 2, 2026 | Research
One of my dear friends and professional colleagues is Dr. Barbara Fiese, a clinical psychologist and academic researcher. Barb and I met the year that we were the two clinical, pre-doctoral psychology residents in the departments of Pediatrics and Child Psychiatry at...
by Sandy Siegel Miller | Dec 2, 2025 | Musings
Jon and I consider ourselves very fortunate people; our lives are full of blessings—work that we love and gives joy to others, a bounty of friends and family, a warm, safe home that’s tucked into the beautiful woods… and so many others. We talk often about how...
