Jean E. Crichton:  

Life Some things have changed dramatically since school...I am a classically trained singer and have been performing professionally for 25 years, but I haven't relied on it solely for income, as I have been happily employed as a mainframe systems programmer for over 15 years. Those of you who remember PYF (you know who you are) will hopefully be elated to hear that I stopped backsliding when I was in my early 30s and am now a deeply committed Evangelical Christian. I am a Deacon in my church (still Presbyterian, but theologically Reformed and conservative), teach sunday school, love children, animals, dancing, classic movies, and I am also active in the singer/dancer's union and am on the board of the Maryland Coalition Against Pornography. I have become proficient enough as a systems programmer to feel as if I have been coasting for the last few years. That may be a good thing, since I have for the last year been overwhelmed by the desire to pitch Information Technology out the window and devote myself to music full-time again -- but this time, it HAS to be worship music. Of course, since music for me is all about bonding with other musicians, this requires that I find other like-minded musicians who have the same sense of mission and purpose. So...things are happening.... The praise team in my church has informally formed a group; we have recorded one CD and are nearly finished recording our second. My poetry has finally returned after 30 years of dormancy and I am starting to write song lyrics again, and I had my first song set to music (beautifully) by the leader of our praise team earlier this year. There is something very special about singing your own words, written out o...Expand for more