What are you listening to?

Me? I'm listening to Teddy Swims. Pretty much all day, every day.

Back in June, my sister shared an IG post that included this video, and she wrote, "This guy is definitely unexpected."

Indeed.



After that, I started following Teddy on IG and watching his videos on YouTube. He's done a lot of great covers and his own stuff is a nice mix of R&B, pop, rock, country, and blues. I've been listening to him on Spotify ever since.

One of my favorites is this duet of Paloma Faith's "Only Love Can Hurt Like This," written by Dianne Warren.


"Broke" is a fun song with Thomas Rhett:


Over the summer Teddy announced that he had an album coming out, I've Tried Everything But Therapy. It dropped in September, and now I've been listening to that every day. I love it so much. This is an album where I love every song, but my favorite today is, "What More Can I Say?"



Other top contenders are "Lose Control," "The Door," and "Goodbye's Been Good to You."

The best part of all this is that my sister and I are going to see him in concert in November. I cannot wait!

Is this thing on?

Well, hello there!

I've been thinking for a few months about starting this blog back up. I hadn't done it yet because, frankly, I don't even know if people still read blogs. It seems people nowadays are posting blog-like content on Substack, but I'm not really interested in getting subscribers and all that.

A few months ago, I re-read, Are You There God, It's Me Margaret, which I followed up by watching the movie, and then I watched a great documentary about Judy Blume. In the documentary, she talked about writing Wifey and I wondered if I'd ever posted about that book before. I searched my blog, and to my delight, discovered that I had indeed written about it. And the post was actually pretty good, if I do say so myself. (See: Please, let me explain, January 29, 2019).

Reading it reminded me of the fun I had writing it. It also showed me that I like having old posts to refer back to as reminders of what was going on in my life. It's similar to reading old journals (which I also did recently and found it to be quite amusing) and realized even if no one reads blogs anymore, I like writing them as reminders for myself--reminders of what I've seen, read, listened to, and why I liked (or didn't like) what I saw, read, or heard. If others happen to come across the blog and enjoy what I write, all the better.

More recently, I got an email notification that a blogger who I used to read and then followed on social media posted something new to his blog. I thought, you know, that's a good idea. I'm gonna do it too. So, here I am.

It feels good.