I’ve been feeling like a machine as of late. I’ve gotten myself on a pretty strict routine to make sure I get all the work I need to do done. I do take breaks, don’t get me wrong, but even those feel like they’re routine and I feel like I can’t break out of the habit….
Settling in Our New Home
It’s a pretty insane thought, but we moved again. After only living a few months in our old place, we decided to move out of it to find a bigger space that was suitable for us and our animals. Our old condo was amazing, but with the cats running around, our chinchilla needing a lot…
Picking up the Flute Again
I was working on demos again today and thought to myself, you know what would be awesome in this song…? If there was a flute! I haven’t picked up my flute in years and quite frankly I didn’t know if I would remember the fingering for it, let alone how to blow into the darned…
Deficiency Syndrome: Back in the Studio
If you’re new to my life or didn’t know me when I was 18 you may not know that I was hired to write a musical in college. It was a pretty cool project that was developed around verbatim text from patients with HIV & AIDS across Ontario. While the monologues were fully verbatim, it was…
Taking it to the Piano
It’s been a while since I’ve taken a crack at writing lyrics. I know, I’ve talked about that quite a lot recently, and it’s mostly my fault for not doing it. I guess after my YouTube channel kept on plummeting, I felt discouraged and didn’t push myself to sing or write lyrics. (Shoutout to G…
Thank you Distant Star
With Oasis Love now being over, I have some time on my hands and am itching to start a new project. Tonight all I could do was listen to old tracks of mine, specifically from Distant Star. I know I mentioned in my last blog that I was getting down on myself with music, but…
Shake it Off
I find it fairly difficult to stay focused and to stay positive. If you know me even a little bit, you know that I’m easily thrown and get discouraged fairly frequently. On the other hand, I am someone who pushes hard to get the things that I want and works endlessly to get past the…
Moved In (A mini-Condo Tour)
My parents decided it was time to sell their house, so it was time for K & I to find a new place so they could move into the condo we were renting from them. We had been thinking about it for a while, especially because we weren’t allowed to have pets in our old…
Scared to Write from the View of a Person of Colour
As you may know, I’ve been spending a significant amount of my time teaching writing courses. It’s been about a year of me doing it consistently, and I’ve had so many different students from such different walks of life, but somehow the same question always comes up: Should I write from my perspective as a…
I Dream in Orchestration
All of my life I was surrounded by classical music. I was in classical choirs, I trained in classical vocal, I was in bands that played classical music and all of the piano pieces I knew how to play were classical. (Well other than the few Evanescence songs I learned from my sister’s piano book….