I wrote this song to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Norwegians emigrating to the upper Midwest in 1825. I tried to imagine what it must be like for a person to risk everything to come to a new place…

It occurs to me, when I watch the news, that the tidal wave that killed more than 200,000 people around Indonesia in 2004--well that could have been one of us who got swept away. And some survived--the baby floating on…

Utterly heartbroken following the massacre of 19 students and two teacher in Uvalde, TX on May 2022, I wrote this song. We videotaped it live in a school room in Seattle as my submission to the Tiny Desk Contest. We…

Two years ago I was watching the news in our hotel in Florida. Top of the cycle were stories about immigration. Immigrants were struggling to get across the border but the access was getting harder by the minute. The president…

“So . . . what comes first,” asks my friend Jim. “the lyrics or the melody?” 

“Both,” I say. 

They come at the same time, like orphaned twin angels. They come while I am walking, freed of the distractions of…

Several years ago while sitting in a Costco parking lot, I started writing a song for my husband called "Traveler." I was trying to find a way to say "I love you" without saying exactly that . . . but…