Tinnitus Update 2025
My body has always been cooperative. Although I’ve had a few mysterious maladies they always retreated as mysteriously as they arrived. Not this one.😵💫
Rearview Mirror
I’ve come to accept with clarity and closure that I’m really a John-Girl when it comes to the tippy top of my favorite tracks. Paul might tap into my ears but John goes right to my gut. His songwriting sense is hotter for some reason. 😳
Pam
My friend (and songwriting-sista) Pamela Sheyne wrote a little song called “Genie in a Bottle.” Christina Aguilera took it to #1 all over the world. Join Pam and I as we go down a little bit of memory lane with “Genie” 26-years-later and hear what she has brewing in her current box of endeavors. 🧞♀️🧞🧞♂️
Elton and Brandi
One HAS to get into bed with other ppl because you never know how they’ll tap into places within you that never got explored. I get it. But I’ll just say this at the risk of being boo’d: It feels like artists are asking themselves with whom they should pair-up in order to stay on the charts, make history, win an award. Does Great + Great = Great? 😳😳😳😳
My Martini
I’m very precise about how I like my martini. I let the server know that if it doesn’t meet my specifications I will send it back. I’m not a bitch about it, it’s just a matter of fact. I wasn’t always so picky when drinks were 10 bucks. But now that they’re $25 I think I should get exactly what I want.
Freeze
I will always love music and make music and listen to music and crave music and believe music changes minds and hearts. I will always be a songwriter but being a songwriter doesn’t completely define me. And so I’ve wondered if I have earned the space to write about other stuff. 🤷🏻♀️
FireAid Meets Grammys
Many recent parties and celebrations were understandably cancelled out of respect for the grief of the people effected by the LA wildfires. But the showing up of countless iconic stars for FireAid, which raised 60 million dollars, was a godsend. And the choice to move forward with a Grammy night that never lost sight of LA strong was hopeful, uplifting and healing. I’m glad they did it.
Cruising
I’m grateful beyond to have these opportunities to pull back a curtain and share what it is to be a songwriter. Whether on land or in this case at sea. To try to explain that our most favorite state is in that zone when everything but whatever it is you’re writing … simply disappears. It’s magical. 🛳 🐠 🌊 🎶
Survivor’s Guilt
When I walked outside at 5AM this morning the sky above the mountains — usually crystal clear — was a milky gray. But everything else in my yard was pretty much in its place. The lights were still strung, Buddhas still standing, hammock still hanging, wind chimes still chiming. Why me?
