This is just a reminder that if you scroll to the bottom of this blog homepage you’ll find links to my original music. Yes, that’s me singing songs I made up out of my own head. If you’re on a device that doesn’t let you see those links, go to my page on CD Baby.com. I’m also on iTunes.
The album (which is only digital) is called This Is My Going of Age, which is a lyric from of one of my favorite songs that I ever wrote (and I wrote a LOT of songs in the depressed years between 1997 and 2004). What I appreciate about “Going of Age” is that it describes the feeling of passing from young womanhood to middle-aged-and-beyond womanhood. It applied to my life when I wrote it at age 37 and it applies now that I’m 48. It says that I’m okay with losing the markers of youth because I’m gaining a new kind of power and grace and it feels good. It ends with the idea that I no longer need to look attractive to everyone I pass in the street. I just need the right person to appreciate me.
More on my songs and what they’re about is here.
And here’s the story of why I started songwriting and performing, and then why I stopped.
Thank you, Matt!
I have enjoyed your album – beautiful music.