There’s something quietly fascinating happening online right now, and I think it says more about where we’re headed than most people realise. According to a recent article on Reprtoir, millions of people have been flooding social media with the hashtag…
There’s a lot of noise right now around AI and music. Depending on who you listen to, it’s either the end of creativity as we know it or just another tool in the long line of tools musicians have always…
I didn’t start writing songs to become a better person. I started because I loved music. Because I was drawn to melody. Because there were things inside me that felt too big, too confusing, or too private to say out…
Today is the last day of January which means that tomorrow kicks of one of my favourite times of the year. It’s FAWM time. Now I can hear you thinking… “what the hell is FAWM?” Well, FAWM stands for February…
Most people talk about songwriting as if it’s something that happens to you. Inspiration strikes. A song arrives. You catch it before it disappears. That story sounds nice, but it doesn’t describe the everyday reality of writing songs. Most songs…
You know, lately I keep hearing a phrase pop up everywhere. On the surface, it sounds healthy. Empowering, even. It feels like a pushback against being silenced or dismissed, and in many cases, that’s exactly where it came from. People…
For a long time, I thought a slower life would arrive once I did enough, achieved enough, or figured enough things out. What I’ve come to understand is that slowness isn’t something you reach. It’s something you remove obstacles from.…
November 22nd, 2025 marked the 5th anniversary of Mara’s passing and although the latter part of November is always going to be a challenge to get through (as November 19th is also Mara’s birthday), I found that this time around…
You know, life sure has a habit of refusing to stay tidy. It can feel uncomfortable, incomplete, lonely, confusing, and at the same time strangely beautiful. That mix isn’t a mistake. It’s just the raw material we’re all made from.…
There’s this idea I keep coming back to: the better you get at writing songs, the better you become as a human being. Not in a moralising way. Not in a “songwriters are enlightened beings” way. More in the sense…