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 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, [...]