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I’m a girl living in this world with a lifelong dream of being a musician. Ever since I was a kid belting Mariah Carey in front of the mirror, I knew performing was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I’m tired of hearing people say these things:
“You’re Not Good Enough” “You Can’t Do That” “That Won’t Work” “That’s a Pipe Dream”
To them I say:
Watch Me!
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Hay Ride: The Song About Learning to Be Slow
I am not naturally a slow person. I am a list-maker, a planner, a let’s-go-while-we’re-going kind of person who finds stillness difficult even when…
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Where Were You? Twenty-Five Years of Remembering September 11
Twenty-five years after September 11, 2001, I share what I watched that morning, the classmates who enlisted, and how I remember them today.
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Flannel Season: The Song About Deciding to Be Cozy
There is a morning every fall where I pull a flannel off the hanger and put it on and something inside me goes, yes.…
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October Ready: The Song About Bringing the Season Inside
There is a specific kind of Saturday that happens every fall in my house. It starts with me pulling bins down from the attic.…
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Jump: The Song That Surprised Me Most
This song started as the silliest idea I had for this album and ended up being the one that makes me cry the most.…
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Crisp Fall Air: The Song About Wishing You Were Here
Picture this. A porch. A cup of coffee. Kids laughing somewhere down the street, playing without a care. The wind in my hair and…
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Why Christmas needed monsters
Frau Perchta carries a knife. Pre-Save the Album today! She comes on the Twelfth Night, in the Alpine regions, and she checks two things.…
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Sunday Kind of Fall — The Song About the Life I Dream About
I am going to tell you something a little vulnerable. I am not a football family. We do not have team jerseys or a…
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First PSL — The Song About the Smallest Kind of Happy
Every fall there is a moment that functions as the official unofficial announcement that the season has arrived. Not the equinox. Not the first…
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Corn Mazes — The Song About Being Lost and Loving It
I want to talk about getting lost. Not the scary kind, not the kind where your heart is pounding and you are genuinely concerned…
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Pumpkin Patch Day — The Song About the Best Kind of Ordinary
Nobody warned me that pumpkin patch day would become one of my favorite days of the entire year. When my kids were little I…
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September Starts, and So Does Everything Good
Can I tell you something that might sound a little dramatic? September feels more like a new year to me than January ever has.…
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