I've been nesting like crazy (if you could hear Bret in the background, you'd hear a loud "uh huh!"). Baby No. 2 is due July 13, which is still two weeks away, but the early arrival of two friends' babies shifted my nesting urge into hyperdrive ... .
We're switching to a new blog software which is a little friendlier than the last one, as far as posting photos/videos/etc. goes. We've imported most of the entries from the old system, although they need a little cleanup.
It'll be a work in progress for a while, but check back for more updates...
It’s that time of the year again! Bret and Ryan are back in action with Halfpenny Orchestra and their fourth year of participation in FAWM (February Album Writing Month, fawm.org ).
So far this February, they’ve written and recorded three songs, which you can listen to on their FAWM site .
They’re off to a great start, rife with creative personal challenges and witty lyrics. As a FAWM widow, I couldn’t be prouder!
This video shows the origin and vision of Etsy, the marketplace for all things handmade (where I have a little shop: RooksPaperScissors.etsy.com):
Rather than e-mail this along, I thought I’d just post these silly questions here for your possible passive reading pleasure…
For the last few Februaries, Ryan Miller and I have written songs for FAWM under the name Halfpenny Orchestra. We registered the halfpennyorchestra.com domain but never really did anything with it. Well, we’re doing something with it now.
From time to time, we find ourselves lamenting that we’re too busy, that we don’t push ourselves enough to be creative, that we feel like we’re not using what gifts we have very well. Our friend James Van Lommel feels similarly, so we three decided to start a blog together.
The main purpose of the site is really to provide mutual accountability and creative encouragement for ourselves. We’re each committing to post some sort of original content or commentary there at whatever interval we can, with an ultimate goal of weekly posts from each of us. We’ve started with two essays and a photo with commentary, but future posts may include music, book reviews, sketches, short fiction, and all sorts of other things.
So, if you’re interested in seeing what we’re up to, you can find out at www.halfpennyorchestra.com. Please feel free to peruse whatever is there and leave comments…and please pester us if you notice that it’s been a couple of weeks since something new was posted. :)
There are three main groups of people: those who will ignore you; those who are annoyed at you; and those who are already on your side (who may yet be annoyed at you). The number of people you convert to your side is pretty much guaranteed to be lower than the number of people you alienate…just so you know.
I don’t know if I’ll be able to suppress my gag reflex long enough to actually write a post about how much I dislike America’s political system (and am frustrated by people who have unflinching loyalties to their chosen political parties). Maybe I won’t…it would just make me grumpy. We’ll see.
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