On April 8th, 2024, I got to see a total eclipse of the sun. As a child of the 80's, I can't hear the term "total eclipse" without...

Maybe these words sound familiar to you, because of the hymn, "Lead, Kindly Light". It's a piece I've always found to be pleasant to...

Everything has been busy. The Fall has been so gorgeous, and the colors have seemed to hang on a little longer than usual. One day when I...

Content warning: Death! Cancer! (No I don’t have cancer but other people did and do.) The afterlife! Grief! Religion! Divorce! (No I am...

“Nope.” That’s what Joe said when I read him a tweet about the latest discovery of space/time waves. Gravitational waves. Waves. Of TIME...

“Why are the flags at half mast??” Howie, my eleven year old asked me this as I dropped him and his little sister off at school yesterday...

We threw out all the boxes and wrapping from Christmas and that wave came over us both. That need to keep throwing things away. December...

I didn’t think I had time for nostalgia. December is always the busiest month of our lives. But Joe wanted to see the Harris Fine Arts...

If you follow me on social media or if you know me in real life, then you know that my sister, Julie Shill, passed away on October 9th. I...

Hey, friends. I don't know about you but this summer has been a big season of change for me, in some good ways. The garden in my backyard...

As I look through the most recent blog posts before this one, I see that I don't visit here often enough! To those very wise, sensible...

Tomorrow is Mother’s Day. A lot of women love it. Some find it a complicated day. Some men and women think it’s a scary day because they...

2020, man. It's been a year. And it's that time again, for deals on CDs. It's closing time on the era of the Compact Disc, but if you do...

When an album of mine turns 20 years old, I feel like I need to give it a little love. In 2017 when my first album, Taken was 20, we had...

Hi, there, it's been a while. I have a lot on my mind today. It's Tuesday, March 24th. Here in Utah we are currently social distancing at...

There’s a saying I hope I never hear again, though I’m certain I won’t have such luck. It is, “God will never give us something we can’t...

I was driving one day with the radio on and the DJ started talking about New Year's 2020 (it was August so this was weird) and she said...

No, it isn't Christmas. I love Christmas, but I can't lie, I think that late summer is truly the very most wonderful time of the year....

It was time for some change. A new website. Some new photos. A way to link together all of the stuff I do. What better way to kick it all...