Tag: stage fright

The Public Speaking Blues: Childhood and Adolescence in a Performance Anxiety Funk

The Public Speaking Blues: Childhood and Adolescence in a Performance Anxiety Funk   When I was attending Chapel Street  elementary school in Georgetown, Ontario,  back in the 1960s, public speaking was an integral part of the curriculum in the senior grades. And terror was the order of the day.   My public speaking anguish typically..

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Elegy for a personal paradise lost: music in Georgetown, Ontario, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, with Mr. Ken Harrison

Elegy for a personal paradise lost: music in Georgetown, Ontario, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, with Mr. Ken Harrison “The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you. It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we..

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