I remember when I first walked into the computer lab that Fall morning back in 2000. “What the heck is this?” I thought to myself as I sat down in from of a computer that was oddly shaped almost like an egg with a small profile keyboard, and a round mouse. “They use Apples here?” [...]
I remember very vividly the first day of school. Both my parents were with me, but I don’t remember my sisters being there. Maybe one of them was being held by mom. I remember standing outside of this long, red brick building. We were in an open grassy field and there were what seemed hundreds [...]
Tissues Tissues are an amazing thing to me. Soft pieces of paper in a square or rectangular box placed randomly around a home. Maybe they aren’t randomly placed; maybe there’s a strategy. maybe they’re by the tv because you might cry when watching a movie. Maybe they’re in the bathroom, well, I don’t know why. [...]
This week I began reading Writing Better Lyrics: The essential guide to powerful songwriting – from generating ideas to developing verse and beyond by Pat Pattison. In the first chapter, the first exercise that he has you do is something called ‘Object Writing.’ The idea is to learn to incorporate your senses into writing; sight, [...]