The Lowest Pair: “Shot Down the Sky”
The vastness, power, and beauty of the natural world is a mind-boggling force to be reckoned with and wonder to behold. Always there, just under or beyond our comprehension, the … Read More
Liz Longley: “Torture”
Science has proven that human touch is a necessary component of a healthy life. A long, genuine embrace sparks a release of oxytocin which lowers cortisol and, thereby, stress levels, … Read More
Jill Andrews: Thirties
Raise your hand if you thought your life would look different at whatever age you happen to currently be? It’s an endemic condition, that. Maybe it’s from the movies that … Read More
Dave Simonett: Red Tail
There’s nothing quite like a global pandemic to highlight the bubbles that each of us exists within, unable or unwilling to see past its boundaries. We so easily forget or … Read More
Brandy Clark: Your Life Is a Record
The artist’s way is hardly ever a straight line or a single path. It often strolls to and fro, around and about, here and there. Sometimes the tangents are dead … Read More
Aoife O’Donovan: Bull Frogs Croon (and Other Songs)
Songwriting and poetry, while sharing so many similarities, continue to be two very different art forms, each with their own freedoms and constraints. Some artists bridge the divide single-handedly, churning … Read More
The Secret Sisters: Saturn Return
Everyone knows, and has likely lived, the old adage, “When it rains, it pours,” to describe those phases of life when everything seems to come crashing down at once. It’s … Read More
Robby Hecht: “Ferris Wheel”
At a certain point in life, you realize that having hard, honest conversations about painful personal secrets is the only way to lessen the shame attached to them. One of … Read More