When Woody Roseland, Connie’s son, was diagnosed with bone cancer in his leg at age 16, they began a dark and painful journey of many months of doctors, drugs, chemo, surgeries, hospitalizations and struggle. During this time Connie Akins, of Simply Speaking, began playing the piano as a medicine for her soul. Out of this difficult time she created more than 30 beautiful and deeply moving songs. This led to a CD and her first concert at the Holy Love Lutheran Church in Aurora on October 23d where she used her toastmaster skills to tell stories she had written about a master glass blower and “The Girl With the Crippled Hands” interspersed with her beautiful piano songs. Gail Hamilton, a fellow Toastmaster overflowing