Its true that |
I want my kids to follow their dreams - whether they want to be plumbers or scientists or cooks or artists or stay-at-home parents. And yeah, I hope their dreams don't turn out to include joining the...
Posted by on Thu, 29 May 2008 07:50:00 GMT |
Song a Day week is here |
so today instead of writing new songs, I recorded what I've got so far this week: One and a half songs. I posted 'em in all their unfinished glory. Investigating Happiness (a phrase I heard Ellis us...
Posted by on Thu, 15 May 2008 01:31:00 GMT |
another partial song - 2/3 done |
I just posted a new song I'm working on. It's 2/3 done, I think. It needs another verse or a bridge or something and I've got about 10 versions of the last chorus - haven't settled on one, yet. I a...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:05:00 GMT |
Whipping through the WIPs |
Works-in-progress, that is. I posted another one today. I haven't had much of the "create from scratch" energy lately, so I'm looking at stuff I wrote this past autumn (remember autumn - that week t...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:46:00 GMT |
Another version of a sort-of done song... |
i wrote most this song a long while ago (then called Another Morning) but wasn’t quite happy with it. I like this version better. But I have a lot to learn about recording with Garage Band. I...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:06:00 GMT |
back in the moment |
My family and I participated in Earth Hour last night (A global event in which people turned off their lights to make a statement, to help find new ways to reduce their impact on the environment, and ...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:08:00 GMT |
making music outside the box |
Outside the vocal box, that is. For weeks now I’ve been struggling to write a "song" - you know, lyrics, piano accompaniment - that sort of thing. For weeks now I’ve been frustrated.I do...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:44:00 GMT |
laughing like there’s no tomorrow |
So I'm thinking that I'm about the luckiest girl there is. What else explains the fact that despite our sub-zero temperatures lately, some of my best friends in the world convened HERE for a weekend ...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:09:00 GMT |
The space between songs |
I am a big fan of the Solstice. And here in Minnesota we are endowed not only with crystalline, deep darkness, but a blanket of snow that smoothes out the landscape with a sort of calming "shush" and...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:22:00 GMT |
stuck in a snowdrift |
We've had a lot of snow lately - in fact, it's the snowiest November/early December we've had since 1996. The snow has had a variety of effects on me and my family. At first, we were all pretty ench...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:33:00 GMT |
