My Life As A Heathen is discourse of the beliefs we are taught when growing up from our parents, family members, church goers and friends that they expect us to believe without challenge. This book details the common sense questions that are sometimes never discussed because they are assumed to be 'the way it is'. These questions move through time from a young girl learning about life to a mature woman who has lived a long and fruitful life.
About the Author: At an early age Elizabeth M. Sutor developed a talent for making music. "My mother says I was singing before I could actually talk", she recalls. Her sister Norma sang in the school choir and took piano lessons, her brother Richard also studied piano and played organ for the same high school choir. Her brother Roger sang in the school choir as well, and played drums. On Saturday nights, neighbors frequently dropped by the house with musical instruments in hand for impromptu jam sessions, and rehearsals with the band Richard and Roger had formed. Elizabeth's childhood was surrounded with music. So it was no surprise that she, too, took to the piano. In her teens she also taught herself guitar by listening to the popular folk artists of the day. Being a singer as well as a guitarist and pianist, she performed in several musical groups during her high school days. These included groups within the school system and groups made up of her friends for weekend performing at local coffeehouses and in "open mic" venues. In her 20's she moved to Philadelphia and became a session musician/background vocalist and demo singer at Veritable Records (VRC Studios) in Pennsylvania. She also performed in Philadelphia at university and college coffee houses and in local clubs. In 1980, she moved to Los Angeles, performing with local bands and engaging in session work.. After about 10 years in California, Elizabeth returned to Delaware. "I had stopped pursuing my dream and was caught up in pursuing other peoples' dreams. It felt wrong, to do that, but because I lost my sense of self for so long, I also lost my self-confidence. I talked myself into giving up music and into pursuing a more "normal" existence, one based not on what I really wanted or was interested in, but on money and security", she says."The ironic part is that there never was any security in any of those situations because I would always end up leaving. I felt completely out of place, and was terribly unhappy." And that turned out to be a blessing in disguise, because it was that dissatisfaction with the status quo that lead Elizabeth back into the recording studio after a 15 year hiatus from music and performing. "Live It On The Outside" is her first CD, and she is now working on a second collection of "New Thought" music, which she performs as a music ministry in the quad-state area of Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey. Visit her website at www.elizabethmaymusic.com.