Let’s face it – almost all Halloween music is OLD and OVER PLAYED! I decided to change this!
The Halloween album is coming in October, and I keep coming back to one thing about it: what it means to make music with your child.
My son has been part of my creative world his whole life. He grew up watching me write, hearing music constantly, and seeing that creativity was something you could actually do, not just something that happened to other people. Now he is doing it himself. He brought me songs for the Halloween album and they were good. They were genuinely and legitimately good, and the experience of sitting with him as a fellow songwriter rather than just as his mom was something I was not fully prepared for.
He has natural storytelling instincts and a distinct creative signature. Right now, that means an absolute obsession with skeletons, so you can definitely expect a lot of songs centered around funny, spooky, skeletal antics on this record. He commits to a weird idea without second-guessing it, writing with the boldness of someone who does not yet know he is supposed to have doubts.
Balancing a major collaborative project like this alongside my 2026 creative promises has been such a rewarding challenge. At the start of this year, I committed to two daily and monthly anchors: writing a daily blog post and releasing at least one new piece of music every single month.
Showing up every single day to write and release music consistently has completely transformed how I work. It keeps the creative channels open and eliminates the fear of the blank page. More importantly, it sets a direct example for my son about what real creative discipline looks like in practice.
Creative legacy is not just the music you make. It is the permission you give the people around you. Every time I write a song or post a daily update, I am saying to my son: this is possible, your ideas have value, and the weird idea is always worth following. He believed that. Now he writes Halloween songs about skeletons that are creepy, funny, and completely his own.
October is going to be something truly special.
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