We all have friends and family who are coping with difficulties. This is a challenge to write a song/poem to encourage them.

The SecondLife Dallas Jam 2019 is over, but the memories and friendships remain. Here are some pics and vids of the experience.

SecondLife Music Jams are a way for performers and fans from this virtual environment to meet and perform in 'Real' Life..

James Morrison, aka Gandalf Mornington ("Gandy" to many in SecondLife), is in our spotlight today. Check him out!

We shine the spotlight on Duskyrose Deir, a very active part of the SecondLife music community, as a fan as well as manager and promoter.

We shine the spotlight on Melly Faith, a performer from Oklahoma who sings to bring smiles to her audiences faces. Check it out!

I think it's important, as artists and as music fans, to expand our musical horizons. This is me stretching a little musically.

Our spotlight shines on T.G. Mortale, a music lover and performer who originally hails from Texas, and currently lives in Wisconsin.

We shine the spotlight on Cassie Magic, an avid music lover from the Texas Gulf Coast, How did ZZ Top get her in trouble?

Today we shine the spotlight on Star, and learn a little about her musical background and interests.

Eating breakfast at the Neighborhood Cafe inspired this last song in the 7 Day Songwriting Challenge - this on a ukelele!

Choose to live your own life, not the life others would choose for you, it's better than the alternative!

One aspect of love we often don't talk about is what happens to our love when we die. "I Will Wait For You" is an anthem of hope.

There are days that trying to write a song is full of roadblocks, mentally and time-wise. Today has been one of those.

As the journey continues, I let the 'rocker' in me out a bit, and wrote a 'song with a hidden meaning'. I'll let the listeners decide....

Day 2 of the 7 Day Songwriting Challenge. A new song, different processes for these first two songs. How are you doing in your challenge?

Writing songs doesn't just "happen". People sit down with an idea, or melody, or a few words, and craft it into a full blown song.

Over the course of my life, I've listened to music via many different media. I've listened to it on Vinyl, 8 Track, Cassettes, and media

Songwriting has been around as long as people have been making music. There are songs about everything...literally, EVERYTHING. I sat here and thought of different ideas that you wouldn't necessarily think there would be songs about.. but there are. Eating flies? LOTS of songs about that, including "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly". Kissing a dinosaur? Well there's... "Good Night Dinosaur" One little dinosaur was sent to bed. He stomped his feet, And he shoo

I've been writing and playing music most of my life. For most of those years, performing music 'live', for me, meant standing in front of a audience of people I could see (when the stage lights weren't in my eyes), or occasionally, standing in a television studio or a radio station studio as the broadcast was recorded or sent live over the airwaves to people I could not see, but who were still in the same general geographic area as me. Although I spent some time in a recordi