I live big, I love hard, and I appreciate you.

I homestead at a honeybee farm in rural West Virginia. I write songs & just recorded an album in Los Angeles. I read a lot, mostly in the bathtub.  I am a meditator, a hiking enthusiast, a wannabe-painter, once-poet and someday-novelist. Usually, I do more than this, but if I would rather you said hello so we could learn about ourselves together.

Most people call me EMay. My parents named me Erika May. Facebook has reverted me to “Erika” after years of being “EMay”, but I still go by EMay in the real world.

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Piles:

• Current Projects:
  • releasing a new album
  • writing a book
• Read Recently – 5 star only
  • Big Magic
  • Generosity by Richard Powers
• Read Soon:
  • Beekeeper’s Apprentice
• In my CD Player Now – 5 star only
  • EMay’s new CD (not publicly available just yet!)
  • Moors & McCumber – Live from Blue Rock
  • Wytold’s Fireflies, Fairies & Squids
  • Hip Hatchet’s Hellhound In The House
  • Beyonce’s Lemonade
  • Rebecca Wudarski’s Palimpsest 
• Favorite places
  • Tip Top Coffee, Thomas WV
  • Whitegrass Cross-Country Ski Touring Center, Davis WV
  • Esalen, Big Sur CA
  • Fur Peace Ranch, Athens OH
  • Sayulita, Nayarit Mexico
  • La Escuela Del Sol, Nicoya Penninsula, Costa Rica
• Other things I’ll list soon
  • Favorite Homegrown Food Meals
  • Lessons learned by playing with fire
  • Favorite hikes in West Virginia
  • Interesting facts about bees, honey and mead
  • How I keep my sobriety living at a winery
  • Favorite gigs I’ve played
  • Musicians that I’ve collaborated with
  • Favorite things about the current season