My day started with the following email. I’m not including the man’s name.

"Hello Todd, 

My name is (removed) and I am one of the judges for the contest. I have been a song writer and a performing musician for…

I missed my entry last week.  Just flat out forgot.  Sorry about that.

Yet, I don’t have much to report this week.  Work continues on the next batch of songs. I’m still enjoying myself, playing with different arrangement ideas, particularly…

Life being what it is, I just took 4 days off from working on my new songs.  It began Thursday, where I was just tired and took the night off. Friday night was pretty much the same.  Saturday, my wife…

Sorry I missed my entry last week.  My typical Monday night involves half watching Monday Night Raw while I update my journal and do a few other things.  This past Monday I chose to work on music because I didn’t…

Work continues on the next album. I think I might be done writing, and I may have 14 songs. We’ll see.

I want to discuss something I don’t talk about much within these pages. I’m a wrestling fan, specifically, a…

Remember that songwriting contest I entered two weeks ago? Didn’t make the cut. It’s disappointing, and it stings a little, but it doesn’t change anything. I’ll keep on keepin’ on.

On the bright said, I saw Chris Smither perform at…

I entered a songwriting contest last week. I haven’t heard whether or not I made the first cut, which is probably not good, but there’s been no announcement on their website either. Still, we were supposed to be notified the…

Last week I talked a bit about a few pros and cons of entering music contests. Kind of. I talked about entering one, and I probably will. The deadline is in May. However, during this past week, I became aware…

I decided a number of years ago not to participate in music contests - no Battle of the Bands, online songwriting contests, or anything like that. Why not? I’ve done it before. I made the finals of a Blues Showdown…

Work continues on the next batch of songs. Right now, I have 10 songs with either lyrics, lyrics & chords, lyrics & some chords, or essentially complete tunes. I think I’d like to have another 2 before I start woodshedding…

I posted something on Facebook last Saturday, and I’d like to discuss it a little more. The gist of it is I believe this thing we call “inspiration” happens because of the work done leading up to it. I suppose…

Wow.

I’d gotten in the habit of posting every week. Then I went on vacation and didn’t post. Why? I didn’t want the world knowing my wife was home alone. Paranoid? Maybe. Better safe than sorry, especially with her. I…