But now she won't be coming back with the rest. I feel like Charlie finding the golden ticket in the chocolate bar.ĭIXIE CHICKS: (Singing) She traveled this road as a child. I've been lucky enough to work as a reading teacher in Honolulu, Hawaii, which has been an amazing opportunity. THYM: This past May, I graduated cum laude from the University of New Mexico.
And the Dixie Chicks and "Wide Open Spaces" have really been an enormous part of that acceptance and lesson for me.ĭIXIE CHICKS: (Singing) She needs wide open spaces, room to make her big mistakes. And it took a long time for me to really accept that you shouldn't compare yourself and your own path to somebody else's path. So I had to go to community college for a while and transfer my credits. But I just wasn't able to do a lot of the college prep stuff that my friends were doing. And so from basically high school on, my mom was a single mom, and she was working really hard to do everything she could for me. THYM: My parents did divorce when I was a teenager. And my past has looked very different from that.ĭIXIE CHICKS: (Singing) A young girl's dreams no longer hollow. And by the time I got to where I am now, I'd have a family or be in a relationship. I thought I was going to go to college, and I was going to go to law school. THYM: I graduated from high school in 2009. And as Margaret grew up, it helped her make peace with how her life was unfolding. GARCIA-NAVARRO: The song is "Wide Open Spaces" by the Dixie Chicks.
MARGARET THYM: I remember just using my little CD Walkman and singing to myself at night and getting that knock on the door saying, you need to lower your voice because I was just pretending that I was the one on stage.ĭIXIE CHICKS: (Singing) Who doesn't know what I'm talking about? Who's never left home? Who's never struck out?. Today, Margaret Thym of Albuquerque, N.M., tells us about a song she's loved since grade school. People have been sending us their signature song, one that means the world to them, and now we have another one.
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