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I was first introduced to the internet in 1997 and took my first tentative steps into the online world after buying my first computer in 2001. 

My first blog Corey Stewart Songwriting was started in 2004 and ever since then I have been writing about songwriting, the creative process and the business of writing songs ever since.

Corey Stewart Songwriting became Songwriting Zen which then became All About Songwriting and throughout all these changes the focus has always been on songwriting tips and trying to answer the question of how to write a song.

Along the way I had also expanded to other content relating to the music business and home recording under the All About Music Business and All About Home Recording banners.

Lately I’ve been trying to use Corey Stewart Online as the place to house my created and curated songwriting, music business and home recording content but this site is not really the right place to house this type of content.

With that said, let me introduce to you all… The Online Musician.

The Online Musician is a site that essentially combines my songwriting, music business and home recording content into one site with the goal of creating one of the ​​most trusted sources of songwriting, music business and home recording information on the web.

All About Songwriting, All About Music Business and All About Home Recording will still be online but will be home to curated content only.

I have also teamed up with Amanda West from Sheeaun Music who will also be writing for The Online Musician mostly on the business and administration sides of songwriting. I’m excited as to the content that she will be able to produce for the site.

Corey Stewart Online will still deal with songwriting, music business and home recording but as it pertains to me and my own experiences, not of a general “how to” nature.

This is all an end result of some deep soul searching and redefining of my online output and now that this post is published I can move forward with creating more content for this site.

The Online Musician can be found at theonlinemusician.net. Get yourself down there and check it out. Let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions of what topics would interest you.

Peace,

Corey 🙂

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Today, Monday November 22, 2021 marks the one year anniversary of Mara’s passing. 

At the end of last week I went back to her Mum and Dad’s place in Millicent to drop off some boxes of Mara’s clothes, shoes, photos and her wedding dress. The trip also gave me an opportunity to celebrate with her family what would’ve been Mara’s 50th birthday last Friday November 19th.

The trip was a sad one but a necessary one because over the past 12 months since Mara’s passing my life has been all about letting go of things both physically and mentally. I suppose for me, this is all part of my grieving process.

I was noticing more and more as time went on that things that had once served a purpose are no longer relevant in my life. No longer relevant as in its purpose, not in what it means to me.

One of the hardest things to let go was Mara’s wedding dress but the reconciliation I had was that at the end of the day it would be better for the dress to go “home” to the house where she grew up.

Besides… It’s not my size.

Right now though, I am slowly going through all of the collected stuff that Mara and I had accumulated in our time together and I’m asking myself the same question… “Does this thing now serve a purpose in my life or not?” 

If it does, then I keep it. If it doesn’t anymore then I simply just let it go and at the moment I’m finding a lot of things that don’t serve a purpose to me anymore now that Mara is no longer here with me. 

It’s these things that I’m letting go of.

Six months ago in my post A Tribute To My Beautiful One – Six Months On, I wrote that the lessons I had learnt in that time were…

  • Life is far too short for me to be waiting for permission to do something with it
  • Fear is all in my head
  • I suffer fools even less gladly than I normally would
  • People spend too much time complaining about first world problems

Well, I can add “life is all about letting go” to the list and I’m sure that there will be many, many more lessons to add as time goes on.

In the meantime, I light a candle and reflect on how lucky I have been to have shared my life with such a beautiful, magical and special person.

Peace.