Songs are touchstones; expressions of personal thoughts, emotions or memories. An outpouring of experiences. Songs can transport and inspire and also energize. Songs can also help the writer and the listener process emotions of loss or grief.
Actress and singer Lea Michele had been working on her new album, Louder, many months before the tragic and sudden death of her boyfriend, actor Cory Monteith, who died from a toxic mixture of heroin and alcohol. Michele and Monteith also connected professionally, playing high school sweethearts on Fox’s award winning series, Glee.With the recent release of Louder, Michele is giving … Read More


No matter how hard I try to keep my stuff under control somehow it doesn’t behave.
Day by day I try to throw out papers, mail, and other stuff that has outlived its welcome but still there is always more stuff to deal with or organize. Not all of it is important stuff, but still it’s stuff that I don’t want to buy again. Here’s my fear and maybe you can identify with it: once I throw out certain things, I’ll find I immediately need it.
Sweet readers, what is a person to do? How do you deal with your… 



