Where have I been since last June?

I was mostly working pretty hard just to get through living. I've been sick a lot. I have also been up in my head trying to sort out this whole music thing. Do…

This year's February Album Writing Month (FAWM) took me to new places. Things that happened: I let the music inform the song for once and then let the logic of the lyric inform how it develops. This meant I had…

Dear Reader,

February Album Writing Month is well underway for me again this year, my 13th year participating. I will do a wrap-up blog post in early March deconstructing some of my songs and thoughts on the creative process, which…

Dear Reader,

I've been mulling over what it means to speak or not speak. This is a well-worn obsession of mine. A few years back I concluded that surrendering words for presence was much preferred. 

I neatly sorted it out…

Dear Reader,

The grind of living pulverizes new sprouts into a mush, yet I am beginning to write to rescue what I can and maybe make some sense of the past few years. Right now, I'm sitting in a house…