: About Me

Teresa RIngholz is a professional musician and a professor of voice. She lived in Germany for over 20 years and performed world-wide as an opera and concert singer. She also appeared in lead roles in televised operas and has an extensive discography (http://www.teresaringholz.com).

She had a passion for writing at the age of 9 but her teacher told her upon handing back an assignment "No 4th grader should write like this, who did you copy this from?" so she was discouraged from being a writer and became an opera singer instead.

Throughout the years she has written short stories about her memories of childhood and adventure stories about her life as a traveling diva. She has also written and performed in classical music programs for adults and children.

She recently returned to live in the States where at the age of 48, got her driver's license and got married for the first time.

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: My true story about gardening with my parents, grandparents, or children

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I looked down upon the beautiful plate of “fleur de courgette” in a restaurant in Nice, France where I was temporarily working in 1987.   “What is that?” my American colleague asked.  “Oh these are the male flowers of the zucchini plant, battered and fried.”  As I took my first bite of the delicate morsel my senses were filled with delight and my memory was awakened… It was a bright sunny summer afternoon in Upstate New York and I was spending the day with my Italian Grandmother who lived down the street.  A visit with her...

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