Hi, I’m Nathan Judd and I’m a choir widower…here’s my daughter, Kaisa Judd, who is, for all intents and purposes, a choir orphan. Our loving wife/mother is in three choirs right now and this has been a particularly demanding weekend for us, Fiona, and Fiona’s voice.

A gamer widow is becoming a popular term for those with spouses who are addicting to video games, be it console or computer. Believe it or not, there are support groups for these dear spouses, and I’m sure Fiona’s looked into them a time or two as I play Civilization III, IV, SimCity 4 and recently (but not all THAT often, check out my Joe’s Goals badge) Battlefield 2. Civ3 and Civ4 are particularly addicting, luckily I’ve never really got into MMORPGs, or massively multiplayer online role-playing games like World of Warcraft and EverQuest. And although I can see the appeal I’m not one of those guys.

Fiona is currently in the Wasatch Chorale (I always thought it was Corral, like for horses, but have recently been “corrected”), Because We Also Sing (a Women’s choir that practices in Taylorsville), and was recently invited to sing in Rob Gardner’s Joseph Smith the Prophet. She’s at a performance tonight in Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake. Despite not liking being left home — well, we actually do like it sometimes — we are very excited for Fiona’s wonderful talents and her desire to share them with others. I am trying to more fully support her in her own development, culturally, socially and otherwisally. And she develops beautifully by music, and always has. Although she gets sick, dizzy and nauseated playing first person shooter video games, sometimes music has the same effect on me…. :)

Just kidding honey! I love you! Thanks for being beautiful, talented AND wonderful — Band-aid