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Welcome![]() Hi, welcome to my web site. I am a children's author, and a music faculty member at Whatcom Community College here in Bellingham, Washington. I teach Introduction to World Music; Music Appreciation; Class Voice; Collegiate Choir; and an interdisciplinary course I developed titled Arts, Business and Community. When I'm not teaching or working on a writing project, I'm either visiting schools to do writing workshops and assemblies, or I'm hiking or playing in a marimba group with friends.
Ever since second grade, when I saw a film about the husband and wife team who wrote and illustrated the book about a hermit crab named Pagoo, I've known I wanted to be a writer. In third grade I wrote my first story for fun, about Pumpy Pumpkin, who finds buried treasure with the help of his animal friends. I enjoyed all the creative writing assignments I had, from grade school to college--but not reports, which I tended to do at the last minute. Now I like writing nonfiction information in a creative way, like setting the salmon cycle to a poem. Often, in classes or written articles, writers are advised to write what they know. I prefer to choose what I'd like to know more about, then write about it. It's impossible to be bored when you're learning great new stuff all the time. The thing I like best about being a writer, after the creative thrill, is digging around for new things to discover and write about. |
![]() Eternidad is the new musical setting I composed to an existing hymn text by Ellen M. H. Gates (1835-1920): O The Clanging Bells of Time. I responded to a call for hymns which also included a request for Latin-style music and new settings of Gates' text. I thought, why not a salsa-inspired melody and accompaniment? Copyright 2013 Carol Reed-Jones Windy Day Blues (20.6KB)
An original three-verse blues song about living in the Pacific Northwest under big trees. Windy Day Blues
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