comfort & joy

Although I’ve never actually heard it, I’ve heard of Christian rock. I’m all for the spirit in song. I was raised on Gospel music. But oddly, there was no religion in my house, no God at all.  I had to go find that for myself.
I had to find my Judaism, which I’m still working on. [...]

words & music : telling stories

I’m jealous of people who can make music. Anyone who can sling an instrument over their shoulder or carry it in their back pocket, to pull out and entertain with whenever they want, that’s a gift.
Singer-songwriters get the gift of language and the gift of music and while it doesn’t seem fair to someone like [...]

getting there from here

I have a definite writing process.
First I put down the basics. Where’m I starting and where do I want to end?
Then I add details. Every minute little thing I can think of. Color. Taste. Smell. Boring incidental distractions. Adding and adding, until it resembles a bloated carcass.
Then I start carving, cutting, deleting. Bringing her down [...]