Category Archives: WRITING

what a year it’s been // part one

2012 has been nonstop! i can’t believe all the places we’ve been this year. it was fun for me to put together a timeline – this has been one of those years i’ll never forget. warning: there are lots of photos and hyperlinks!

over mlk weekend, will & i took a relaxing weekend away at cloudland canyon as our christmas gift to each other. in march we visited new york city for the first time and spent easter in toronto, trying to decide where we should move.

at the end of april we finally decided where we were moving and threw a cheeky “reveal party.” our closest friends brought drinks that corresponded to where they thought we should move. i drank canadian beer, manhattans and a pimm’s cup – but the pimm’s won – we told everyone we were taking a big jump across the pond and moving to london in september.

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my history with irony

did you read christy wampole’s new york times opinion piece “how to live without irony” last week? it’s been one of those things that’s really stayed with me…  i’ve been trying to write things other than songs everyday, so here is a personal mini-essay in response.Continue Reading

it’s hard to write a real love song

I have been trying to write a love song (I know, really original content), but I really struggled to tell this story without some sort of cliche. It’s hard to express the difficult side of love: the fear, the give-and-take, the selfishness. Then still say why modern, enlightened people choose to do it. Because you can’t just outsource all the things you like about love (or marriage, in my case) and ultimately be fulfilled.

If you have loved someone for years, I respect your courage to be fully present with another person for that long. I tried to write a song that shows love as a choice, a devotion, a constant rearranging to make room for another soul. The way you come to that decision – that is your love story.

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