I lost my mother last Sunday. I was in Nashville, my bags packed for a month-long cross-Canada tour, when I got the call from my sister up in Ontario that she was being rushed to the hospital.
Read MoreI’m standing here staring at a big empty suitcase and an even bigger explosion of clothes scattered all over my bedroom. How exactly do you pack for a month-long tour of Canada?
Read MoreI just celebrated the 11th anniversary of my first steady paycheck as a staff songwriter. Somehow or other, for the past 11 years, music has been keeping me fed, clothed and sheltered.
Read MoreI’m taking a day off today to cook up a storm and freeze a bunch of food in preparation for the birth of my friend Lisa Brokop’s first baby, which based on the size of her, will be happening any minute now…
Read MoreI saw this quiz on Facebook and it seemed like the perfect challenge for a songwriter to try…
Read MoreMy new single "When You Can Fly" is a song that has definitely been the source of some heartache for me! A week after I wrote the song, Reba McEntire's record label flipped out over it…
Read MoreI Googled my album “When You Can Fly” yesterday and then I burst into tears. Page after page of results were links to free “file-sharing” sites. Links to music piracy sites. Links allowing people to steal the music…
Read MoreI feel like such a globetrotter! I’ve been from one side of the continent to the other in the past several weeks…
Read MoreWhen I think about last week’s trip to southern Ontario, I remember it in a series of moments. Surreal moments, peaceful moments, joyful moments and terrifying ones…
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