I always have to take whatever I find on the Internet with a grain of salt.

Not because it’s wrong or unverified — although it often is. Rather, it’s that the Internet is so vast and so easily searchable that you can always find a specific instance of a particular thing you don’t like and don’t agree with.

It’s like those faux trend pieces in the Thursday edition of otherwise reputable papers where they find the three people who spent upwards of $20K on pet weddings during the pandemic and make it sound like it’s the next thing everyone’s doing.

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Around 2011, I wanted to start an online business, but I didn’t know how to do it.

I had a brick-and-mortar music school, so I wondered if there was some way that I could teach music online.

Of course, there was. And if I had actually started such a business back in 2011, it would probably be a monstrous success by now.

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Back when I was trying for a career as a singer/songwriter, I gave no thought to what other people might enjoy.

I tried to make my songs catchy and clever because I liked songs that were catchy and clever. But if anyone else happened to like them, that was more or less a coincidence. And that is pretty much the way art works, so that’s fine.

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I recently started a new project. I’m not ready to talk about it publicly, but message me and I’ll share.

In this new project, I’m facing all of the terrible and uncomfortable thoughts and emotions.

You know the ones. Questions like: What if this is a waste of time? What if I look stupid? What if I do it wrong?

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I have trouble writing fiction, and I discovered a key reason when I attempted to do NaNoWriMo: I don’t like to make bad things happen to my characters.

I don’t want to break their hearts. I don’t even want to inconvenience them.

I mean, Dorothy Gale goes to all of that trouble to get to the Wizard of Oz only to discover that she had the power to get back to Kansas the whole time.

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