There is something about Kate Bush's music that tends to resonate with people. Her voice has a combination of being delicate and having strength, which I first recall hearing, and knowing it was her, with "This Woman's Work." I think it was probably because the movie She's Having a Baby played on TV a lot, and I'd catch the birth scene, and every ( Read more... )

Seventeenth in a series!I am breaking my streak; I do not have new content to post this year. Funny, because I had a *bunch* of stuff in my head last year; I just never wrote it down. Sucks to be me. And, nothing came to me in the past couple days, so I found myself scrounging through my old writings just now, trying to dig up something decent ( Read more... )

I am never going to live this down. The puns. Mom is pulling out all the stops with the puns. Granted, she's pissed that she was not treated well during the situation. Frankly, I'm pissed that my mother is consistently and continually unhelpful in virtually any sort of crisis. But it is what it is and I can't change that we have stains on our ( Read more... )

June 6th happens to be the anniversary of my graduation from 8th grade. This isn't a big anniversary year--that'll be next year--but it's been on my mind for a few days, in part because our graduation song was "From a Distance." The whole class sang it on the altar at the ceremony. Back then, the Gulf War was happening, and we'd spent part of ( Read more... )

Fifteenth in a series!I have something new this year, but it's incomplete. I was so excited to have had something pop into my head, which I figured would be perfect for today, but then the creative flow stopped and I was left with just a few lines, not an entire poem or song. But no matter; I'll put it here anyway ( Read more... )

Fourteenth in a series!I was hoping to have something new this year, because I've had something floating around in my head for a few weeks. Alas, I never really wrote anything down, and when I sat down to try and remember stuff, I couldn't. Oh well. Maybe next year. However, I recalled a song I wrote years ago where I had Avery in mind as the ( Read more... )

One of my goals this year is to be more proactive with things. If I'm home, I want to spend an hour a day working on projects. And, since it's the 30th anniversary of camp this year, I want to pull out my camp song that I did in 2006 for the 20th anniversary. (If you missed it, we had to cancel camp in 2011, hence why it's been 11 years since ( Read more... )

I have made two purchases this week, one a need, one a want (that, if you spin it right, is actually a need ( Read more... )

I slept pretty terribly last night; I just couldn't fall asleep. And the weird thing was that I kept having the chorus of the song "Habits" in my head, just running over and over and over. No joke, at one point I forced myself to think of "It's a Small World" to try and get it out of my head. Eventually I did fall asleep, but it was only for ( Read more... )

Ninth in a series!
(And this is despite me writing that last year's was the ninth one...I can't count, apparently.)

I wasn't kidding about my regularly-scheduled post. Every time I've posted on Valentine's Day, I've posted a song or poem I've written. This year will be no different, except I'm posting a revised version of last year's entry. ( Read more... )