Pack It Up and Tear It Down

When is it time to move on?

Mary Gauthier is a Grammy-nominated folk singer whose first stage appearance was less than what she had hoped for. Far less. She bumped the mic with her teeth, forgot the words of her song, and was thoroughly humiliated. The experience fed what she calls the bully in her head, who raged at her saying that her song was horrible, she was horrible, and it …