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I am alive to experience a relationship with God, which I was given as a gift I couldn't earn. I believe in the existence of God. I have...

happy 2016! i kinda lowkey like the fact that i can bookend a year with blog posts. last post, i wrote a whole bunch of aspirations. this...

happy 2016! i very happily made a list of 2016 resolutions. yes. indeed. i am taking part in the tradition. however, for the sake of my...

so i joined a songwriting club yesterday, and i got to pick a few songs that i was stuck on to throw onto the group drive to get some...

hey kids. one of the things that really hits you in waves post-grad is the thousand little differentials on what your life looks like vs....

my brother got married today on the beach, in twenty minutes and in the sight of twenty people. as the ministers (the bride’s parents)...

okay, kids, let’s talk about the idea of “being modest” about skills, accomplishments, etc. being modest about what you’re good at is our...

whoo, kids.  it’s finals and i’m graduating.  as i go through each final i have to say goodbye to more and different people, and i know...

as a christian and a musician, i have thought about the christian music subculture–and where i sit in relation to it as a...

when writing songs about the internet age, i’ve been at a place for a while that i know something is bugging me about the ways i’ve...

i’ve been reading a lot of books.  a lot of good books, primarily because my friends are fantastic book-recommenders.  one such book,...

I’ve found that #OneWord365 works extremely well as an alternate form of making resolutions – you choose one word to frame your year....

a few days ago there was a trending tag on twitter called “calm down a band” whose purpose was basically to make a play on aggressive- or...

i remember seeing a tweet once that went something like: hey twitter, here’s something that deserves your rage: <link to something i...

hi. it’s only one day after christmas and still six days away from the new year, but we’re go-getters, right? you all ready for a new...

hey all. an unfortunate side effect of all of the deletions i mentioned in my last post is that i was very bad at archiving stuff that...

hey, my peoples! accidental bonus feature of the blog: currently, if you have the right browser configuration, all of this text is...

i love alliteration. and the ampersand.  in the right font it just looks so regal.  it’s like the character of the alphabet that went to...