Sabrina and Mike Live

I am a right handed person, but I play guitar left handed. I do a few other things left handed like play hockey, and although I golf right handed, I…

Today I sat out on my deck as I contemplated what to write about.  The topic – thoughts on life – is just so grand and vague all at once.  I took a deep breath…

Thinking about my favorite gig there was a lot to consider.  There are different kinds of gigs such as a club gig (typically 3 to 6 nights), one nighters, touring gigs (either…

For most of my life, I was considered a fat girl.  In elementary school, I was bullied because of my weight. I remember one time a boy did a two-legged drop kick to my ass…

When we decided to write about our worst gig this week, I had to do a lot of thinking.  I have played all across Canada, the USA, and many other countries. I have played…

Sabrina Speaks: My Elementary School Super Hero - Mrs. Smedbol.

I was in Elementary school during the 70s. It was a time when school districts payed extra money to have a dedicated music teacher in the schools.  Currently, that’s rarely…

Mike Speaks: Steamer's First Tour

Steamer was the name of our band. We got the name from a character in the 1975 movie “Walking Tall Part 2”.  The character’s name was “Steamer Riley”. Steamer started in Kamloops, BC and became…

We're happy to announce the 're-start' of the Sabrina and Mike Live blog. Mike and I have decided that we're both going to write something each week in the hopes of getting to know you better. This is exciting and…

This keeps coming up for me and just recently I’ve come to terms with it.  I kept feeling sorry for myself, believing that I was no one’s bright shining star potential with the ‘it’ quality.  I was not the favorite…

The holidays are such a great time of the year for me.  It seems that it can create kinder, more generous people.  It can turn takers into givers.  It can create more love in our world.  Of course, I know…

As many of you know, I have had the pleasure of performing for all different age groups.  At my most recent performance, I was oddly drawn to one girl who was sitting way in the back.  She was quite pretty…

Loss.  I’ve been struggling with this concept.  It seems that loss comes as a lesson in many forms. How I’m experiencing it these days is that I find myself attached to the idea of an outcome and that outcome is…