I have a friend who’s a songwriter. A damned good songwriter.
And sometimes, not always, when he’s working on a song, he catches fire.
The creative spark, lit by a riff, a snippet of melody, a chord progression starts burning, and he becomes consumed in a creative blaze. The song, as it emerges, overtakes him. He can’t [...]

There were moments last night when my singing truly sucked.
I remember each of those moments vividly. The last note of “It’s Only Love.” The high phrase near the end of “I’ve Just Seen a Face.” The Ab in “Don’t Blame Me.”
AND there were moments last night when I never sang better. Actually, there were whole [...]

There are days, like today,
when all I need or want is to be alone
listening to John Mayer sing “Dreaming With a Broken Heart.”
There are days, like today,
when I feel hung by the weight  of betrayal and disappointment
and yet I don’t care.
Because soon, at 5:00 pm today I’ll be standing in front of a room
of strangers, [...]

“So, how’s the Happiness Project going?” she asked.
“Uh, oh, yeah… the Happiness Project,” I whispered.
“Yeah, you know. The one where you decided to choose to be happy for a whole month? Because of International Happiness Day? You wrote about it in..”
“Yeah, yeah! I remember, I remember! Well, it’s been a little rough…”
Be careful of what [...]