So if you've clicked this I can only assume that you care to know a little bit more about me. As odd as that seems to me, here goes...
I have been writing songs practically since I could write. I started with random lyrics about mundane events in my childhood. Washing dishes, folding towels, a particularly breathtaking trip up the stairs - nothing was safe. Sadly, or perhaps charmingly, depending on your lens, I haven't changed at all. I still sing random tunes about what others would shake off as the crap of life. I do it for my students now, who enjoy it, or I at least like to think they do. That's something else you should know about me. I teach middle school language arts and social studies. In reality, they probably hate my random songs about lining up on the blue line before lunch, but in time, when they look back on our time together they will understand....oh, who am I kidding?
So my own songwriting turned more serious after I acquired a guitar and started learning chords from old Beatles songbooks. I didn't say they were good songs, just more serious. It wasn't until college that I actually started writing things that anyone actually wanted to listen to. This is a thought that still mystifies me today. When someone I know asks me to play a certain song of mine. Weird.
Over the past year or so, writing my own songs wasn't enough anymore so I turned to a novel. It is a partially fictionalized memoir of a year in my life when I was living in NYC and writing a lot of songs and the songs are a part of the book, as well as others that meant a lot at the time and since.
So that leads us to here. During a break from novel writing, I was listening to Jason Mraz's Live and Acoustic album and he started the song 'Little You and I' by saying, "I wrote this song for my cat." Halfway through he talked about how he had probably ruined the song for people by telling them that. That moment led me to this blog. I have always been intrigued by the stories behind the songs, always disappointed when there sometimes wasn't a real one. I have also connected to songs and made my own stories for them. I could pick a song for any mood, any scenario. So, the blog. I figure if I have stories then so do you. I'll be sharing my stories, stories I find from artists, and inviting you to join in. I hope we can have some fun.
