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How To Drive Craft Store Employees Crazy

 My crafty little collection of Christmas percussion!!! Shiny little friends!

My crafty little collection of Christmas percussion!!! Shiny little friends! 

If you're following me on social media, it should be no surprise that I'm working on recording a Christmas album (to be released on Thanksgiving day!)

So after my 5th night in a row of burning the candle at both ends with self-employment and putting this little snowflake of an album together, I deliriously found myself at a local craft store this morning.

There is nothing like walking into a craft store in late Oc…

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I Burned My Journals.

I Burned My Journals

Over the years...

I’ve adopted the daily practice of expressing myself. 

It simply sustains. 

 

It started as innocently as my 13-year-old self, with a daily “Dear Diary.” 

I tore through blank notebooks and journals like a hungry omnivore at a Korean BBQ restaurant. 

Alongside this teenage daily writing, I also practiced music daily. 

 

When my proficiency began to allow it...

...this expression became the outlet for that which I was not allowed to say out loud. 

There were opinions, …

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Why I Pinched Myself 20 Times Yesterday...

There's a reason business managers spend a lot of time on the subject of hiring - The people you surround yourself with can either make or break you. 

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Eric "Cool Fingers, Brah" Howk 

These songs are already so much more alive than I could've ever imagined, it's hard for me to imagine how much better things could get with the remainder of this week. 

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Toms at an octave! Aaron at a 10.

I must've pinched myself like 20 times yeste…

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Public Crying & How to Regain Composure

Public Crying & How to Regain Composure

So there I was...

...listening to brilliant neurosurgeons speak to a room full of people diagnosed with Essential Tremor. We were having brunch.

I was the youngest person in the room since the disease typically gets diagnosed when you're 40+ years old. I had been diagnosed with a degenerative Essential Tremor in my right hand 2 years previously. I was 27 years old at the time. 

It's a neurological condition which causes a trembling of hands, head, neck, voice, legs, or trunk. It worsens with ti…

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Prompt: Puns have become illegal.

This week's (song)writing prompt...

Puns have become illegal.

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Further Prompt Challenge: Puns (my favorite thing in linguistics) have become illegal. Are you a rule follower? Can you withstand the temptation to use one in conversation? Do you use them at home, when no one's looking? If so, who is in your inner-circle of pun-sharing trust? What puns are worth breaking the rules for? What story led to the banning of these?

Check out what the Reddit community came up with!

(& If you just c…

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Prompt: Better to die a good man than to live as a monster.

This weeks (song)writing prompt...

Better to die a good man than to live as a monster.

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Further Prompt Challenge: What does the death of a good man mean? How does that happen? Is it violent? peaceful? How does a monster live? How long does a monster live? What does the monster do with his life?

Check out what the Reddit community came up with!

(& If you just can't get enough prompting, apply the The Muse's Plot Spline, Struxxture, LyriCloud, and Titular tools to this prompt too!)

Feel …

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Prompt: You see the same thing every morning, until one day...

This week's (song)writing prompt...

You see the same thing every morning, until one day...

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Further Prompt Challenge: Your life is pretty unsurprising. You walk to work every morning at the same time every day. Same trees, same trash cans, same cross-walks, same fellow commuters, same homeless citizens, same buildings, same crack in the sidewalk, same latte stand, same bus stops... One day you see something different. Very different. What is it? How would you describe it? Does it prompt y…

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Prompt: You are born into a world where love doesn't exist.

This week's (song)writing prompt...

You are born into a world where love doesn't exist. At the age of 16 you meet someone & become the first person ever to experience this emotion.

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Further Prompt Challenge: Imagine a world where love does not exist, on your 16th birthday you meet someone and become the first person ever to experience this emotion. How is the world different than it is today? What is the most common motivator of life? What does it feel like to feel love for the first time…

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Prompt: The quote "You don't really die until people stop talking about you" is true. Write about waiting in limbo with 3 historical figures of your own choice. "

This weeks (song)writing prompt...

The quote "You don't really die until people stop talking about you" is true. Write about waiting in limbo with 3 historical figures of your own choice.

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Further Prompt Challenge: Pick 3 people from history who are still talked about today.  Imagine that "You don't really die until people stop talking about you." You've died and are still being talked about, so you find yourself in a limbo 'waiting room' with those 3 people. What's the room like? Any fur…

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Prompt: "When someone has their heart broken, it actually breaks. You are a heart surgeon. Describe your most difficult case."

This week's (song)writing prompt...

When someone has their heart broken, it actually breaks. You are a heart surgeon. Describe your most difficult case.

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Further Photo Challenge: Yeesh. This one's a doozey. If this were true, this might possibly be the profession that would never die. Hearts are broken all the time, but which heartbreak would be the most difficult for a surgeon to heal? What story led to the heartbreak? Could it have been prevented? How long will the recovery be? What is …

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