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January 5, 2022

Inspiration

Boy-howdy, why does inspiration have to strike in the middle of the night? Why can’t it hit me when I’m supposed to be cleaning toilets? I haven’t even remotely finished the last four songs I started a few nights ago. Nope, gotta have a fifth one pop into my brain.

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December 29, 2021

“Gonna Live My Life” Official Lyric Video

Wrote this song in Nashville back in February: just me and a borrowed Roland and a few pieces of manuscript paper…wrote everything but the bridge in one hour. (It helps that I recycled an old instrumental song I wrote years and years ago.) Then, Jennie List from Pheasant Productions put this little video together for […]

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December 17, 2021

Thankful For Hair And Jesus

Back on October 31, I posted a picture of myself with red hair. I also blabbed on and on about whether or not I should finally stop dyeing my grey hair. If you remember, the hairdresser said I would have to grow it out and it would take a year. Gulp. Well, I went back […]

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December 17, 2021

Christmas Fudge

That moment when you finally break down and make your annual Christmas fudge—the one with the mystery ingredient—for a party coming up and you realize that by the time you lick out that bowl, clean up the beater, and eat the extra that somehow made it onto your fingers while you shaped the chocolate logs, […]

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December 16, 2021

Christmas Traditions

This memory from three years ago showed up in my Facebook feed. I played piano with this talented group of young people for the annual Christmas program. Fun times.

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December 10, 2021

That’s Not Something You Sing Every Day #1

Nothing like trying to sing at the top of your lungs in the car on the way home from the dentist when half your face is numb and you can’t feel your tongue. Lots of lisping going on: “You’ve thattered my thpirit….I’m gonna live my life, you’ll theeeeee.”

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November 29, 2021

“I Will Give You Praise” Official Lyric Video

The official lyric video for one of my songs just went live. I wrote this song in 2006—13 pages of handwritten notes on manuscript paper (because I hadn’t bought my expensive Finale software yet)—and recorded it back in May. I had so much fun picking out some of the footage; thanks to Pheasant Productions for […]

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November 25, 2021

Happy Thanksgiving

I am thankful today that I am perfectly content to stay up late—watching BBC television with Ken while drinking Earl Grey tea—and don’t feel this need to go out shopping at two in the morning (risking possible death) to buy some useless crap, because I already have everything I need. Happy Thanksgiving, y’all.

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November 21, 2021

Celebration

My new EP “A Story of Reclamation” is now available through iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, and a whole bunch of other platforms I’ve never heard of. Ken and I celebrated this accomplishment by a big trip into town. We listened to the song “I Am Broken” that started it all. Yes, yes, we sang along at […]

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