Posts Tagged With: protest song

Day 4646: You Don’t Scare Me

Posted on September 21, 2025 by Ann Koplow

I sang “You Don’t Scare Me “ in Brookline yesterday and wasn’t scared when

my reserved parking space was full,
a phone rep from SpotHero took me on a wild goose chase to find another spot,
somebody at the protest in Brookline said she was one of the organizers and told me to stop singing,
other people who were organizers overruled her and told me to keep sharing my music,
an unfriendly guy kept taking pictures of me when I was singing,
I connected with many strangers,
I handed out “Singing Therapist” cards with links to my music,
I returned to the second parking lot to find that my car had been towed,
I called SpotHero and was told that the phone rep had told me to park in the wrong spots,
I spoke to the police and the tow company who were kind of scary,
I took a Lyft to go to the scary towing company,
I had a very interesting conversation with the scary owner of the tow company which ended in my giving him my “Singing Therapist Card” and comparing IQ’s, and
I cried at dinner with Michael as I told him about my day.

You don’t scare me, scary world!

I wasn’t scared to get this text message after I had retrieved my car.

I wasn’t scared to admire those fabulous earrings and to share an old video of my son Aaron in his jellyfish costume for Halloween.

You don’t scare me, September 21, 2025!

Here’s “You Don’t Scare Me” …

… and Aaron’s old jellyfish costume.

You don’t scare me, YouTube, when you give me this new error message when I try to share videos.

I am so grateful to people who don’t scare me, including YOU!

Categories: life in the USA, personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: Brookline, Brookline Booksmith, Comfort Kitchen, jellyfish, protest signs, protest song, September 21 2025, SpotHero, superheroes, The Singing Therapist, Twitter | 8 Comments

Day 4548: No Kings

Posted on June 15, 2025 by Ann Koplow

I went to two No Kings protests in Massachusetts yesterday that were very well attended, despite the rain.

Here is a quote from an Axios article about yesterday’s No Kings protests throughout the USA:

At both No Kings protests I attended we stood at intersections with our signs and there was so much horn honking in solidarity that it was difficult for people to hear my protest song “You Don’t Scare Me.” No kings and no noise will ever stop me; people who could hear my song liked it and even sang along. Somebody at my second No Kings protest told me, “I asked AI to write a protest song last night and it was pretty good but yours is better!”

Here are the images I collected on No Kings Saturday.

Here’s what I find when I search for “No Kings“ on YouTube:

Thanks to all who are here for this No Kings blog post, including YOU!

Categories: life in the USA, personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: “You Don’t Scare Me”, Brookline, connections, June 15 2025, Newton, No Kings protests on June 14, protest signs, protest song, realizing you’re not alone, Twitter | 15 Comments

Day 4526: Success!

Posted on May 24, 2025 by Ann Koplow

Success! I made it to NYC and some people I met on the train said they would attend my Open Mic tomorrow in Brooklyn. I’m going to feel like a success even if they can’t make it because we had so much fun connecting yesterday.

I used to believe that success needed perfection but I believe this blog post will be a success even though I forgot to take pictures of the Daily Bitch calendar for today (and for Monday). Also, I mistakenly took the my ukulele without the strap, but I think I can still be a success tomorrow even if I’m sitting down when I’m singing “Everybody’s Somebody’s Asshole” and my protest song.

And I feel like a success because I got a ticket to see the very successful Sondheim review “Old Friends” today!

Do you see success in my images?

Here’s what I find when I search for success on YouTube.

Thanks to all who help me feel like a success, including YOU!

Categories: original song, personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: "Everybody's Somebody's Asshole", arancini at Il Punto, cats, NYC, protest song, strangers on a train, the Arlo Hotel, The Daily Bitch Calendar, The School of Life’s “What is Success?”, Twitter | 10 Comments

Day 4507: Encouragement

Posted on May 5, 2025 by Ann Koplow

When I am trying something new and/or dealing with challenges, encouragement really helps.

Do you find encouragement in my images for today?

I find encouragement in the people I do trust.

Now I need encouragement to get my protest song “You Don’t Scare Me” in front of more people.

I gave myself a lot of encouragement to figure out a way to insert that sound file into this blog post after several failures.

You don’t scare me, technology!

What are your thoughts and feelings about this encouragement post?

Thanks to all who give me encouragement, including YOU!

Categories: original song, personal growth, photojournalism, quotes | Tags: “You Don’t Scare Me”, cats, May 5 2025, protest song, technology, The Daily Bitch Calendar, trying something new, Twitter | 10 Comments

Day 4494: Helpful phrases

Posted on April 22, 2025 by Ann Koplow

I think we need helpful phrases to pep-talk ourselves through life, especially these days.

Yesterday morning, I used the helpful phrase “just do it” to overcome my resistance to recording my new protest song “You Don’t Scare Me.”

Come to think of it, “you don’t scare me” is a helpful phrase.

Do you see any helpful phrases in my images for today?

My late mother, whose birthday was April 22, had many helpful phrases including “Everything worth doing is worth doing well.”

Thanks to my mother, my friends on Twitter, people who protest the current USA administration, and everyone else who helped me create this helpful phrases post, including YOU!