Life After Pop Songwriting
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Life After Pop Songwriting

The other day my friend Brad told me he gets exhausted from just READING my blogs. He said he worked for so many years and when he stopped having fun he stopped working. I hear that. It’s just that I’m still having fun. 🐠

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The Show Must Go On!
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The Show Must Go On!

Three days before the only rehearsal for the first table read of our Musical I suggested to Adam that we reschedule. According to Apple weather LA was expecting a storm of mass proportions. The worst in 40 years. We’d probably lose power. What would YOU do? 😫

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TikTok… Boom!
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TikTok… Boom!

Two things have been on my mind: TikTok and Tick, Tick…Boom! Loved Tick, Tick Boom! and Jazmine Sullivan’s cover of “Come To Your Senses.” TikTok is a different story. 3 of my friends told me recently that I should “get on” it. That I’d be so “good at it.” What exactly is “good at it?” 😳

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Bruce on Broadway
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Bruce on Broadway

I wonder if I could do a one woman show too…"Confessions of a Serial Songwriter." Except mine wouldn’t be on Broadway and I wouldn’t be Bruce Springsteen. Hopefully some people would come.

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On Broadway
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On Broadway

During curtain call I felt warm tears well up behind my glasses. I wanted to stand up and shout, "Everybody wait! Don't go yet! I need to tell you something....."

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Confessions.