Disclaimer: It’s been a rough day and I’m feeling a little broken, so this is going to be a doozy of a blog. It’s going to be long, deeply personal and emotional. In short, it’s gonna get ugly. You have been warned. Sara Bareilles recently released her memoir, Sounds Like Me - My Life (So Far) In Song. I wouldn’t be the true, rabid fan of hers that I am, if I didn’t rush out to go buy both the hardcover book and the audio book. I’ve never bought an audio book before, and the

Today’s not so great a day. Nothing in particular is necessarily going wrong, per say, it’s just not such a great day and I’m not feeling so great about myself. The demons of self-doubt are looming, waiting to strike. I can feel it. So I go about my business, take kids to school, head to work, pop in some ear buds and prepare to get lost in pretty drawings to preoccupy myself and keep the demons away. My music comes on, and slowly, ever so slowly… the demons ebb and the darkn