#40: what remains is good
Last night, I cleaned the kitchen while listening to one of my favorite podcasts: The C.R.E.A.T.E. series. I'm sure I've talked about...
#39 Shush, Child
Life got a little dramatic recently. There were sirens. The short story is that I passed out. Twice. The longer story is that I passed...
#38: wow, look at this.
My son turned 8 this week. Yesterday, he had a few friends over, and I learned that 8 is not too old or cool to jump in leaf piles. Spent...
#37 Too Many Moose
I took my son to Red Robin for lunch recently. A former student once referred to places like these as “breeder feeders”. Fisher and I sat...
#36 Old songs like weeds: A record report
I have a fundamental problem with Time. The breakdown is showing up everywhere, including the new record. A small, independent artist who...
#35: joy is a willing accomplice
Album #3 Update: It’s started. I have 3 nights in the studio and 11 songs scratched out. I also have a lot of thoughts about my lyrics...
#34: Everything I learned, I learned in the kindergarten bathroom.
I had an epiphany in September while sitting on the toilet in the kindergarten bathroom at work. I didn’t have to go to the bathroom. I...
#33: Flotsam on Her 44th Birthday
Today is my birthday. I’m 44, which is pretty exciting. It’s divisible by 11 which only happens once every… well…11 years. Turning 44 is...
#32: The queen turns 1. (Also: snowfields, jellyfish, and songwriting)
Apparently, yesterday was the 1-year anniversary of the release of Queen of Everything. I did not remember this – not until logging into...
#31 Iceland Part 5: Dangling from the monkey's swing
It’s been 3 months since my Iceland trip. It’s time to let go. I left Hólmavík and the whales completely blissed out. I’d managed to nab...
