Healthcare For Songwriters
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Healthcare For Songwriters

SONA worked tirelessly to make healthcare a reality. I was on the board of this amazing grassroots organization for a number of years. I stepped down recently to make room for new blood so I can’t take any credit for the heavy lifting but I’m still proud to have been a founding member and very proud of SONA for this GET! 💪🏽🥁🎶

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Pomp And Circumstance
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Pomp And Circumstance

My baby girl graduated from college last weekend. What is it about the passage of time that seems like it’s moving faster and faster? I feel like I’m living in a continuous loop of ’what just happened?’ 

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Join The Noise
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Join The Noise

If the business model of 20 years ago was as it is today, that favorite song of yours...the one you sang to your baby at bedtime ("Surfer Girl" for me), or danced to at your wedding, might never have been written because the writer who wrote it might not have been able to sustain themselves long enough to stay in the game. Well, things are about to change. Hopefully!

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Dear Santa...
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Dear Santa...

We don’t need material gifts, Santa….just some shift in the Universe that gives musicians faith in the idea that we, and the young people who will come after us, will be able to sustain ourselves and keep giving the world what they can not live without: music.

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Confessions.