by Wendy Nichol | Feb 11, 2019 | Behind The Music
Am I Nothing? It resonates in my soul even still. All of the moments in life when someone walked away from me or ignored me or shut me down as though I were nothing to them. One of the most painful moments in music was in 2001. I had hired a bass player to play on an...
by Wendy Nichol | Jan 7, 2019 | Weekly Writing
I said something to a friend this last week that stuck with me. Sometimes my own words do that. They pop out of my mouth and then actually speak to me while speaking to the other person. I said, “when I had zero mommying skills I wasn’t FAILING as mom. I was...
by Wendy Nichol | Oct 22, 2018 | Behind The Music
Have you ever been around someone that you can feel their potential oozing from their being and yet they are bound so tightly by happenstance, self-hatred and blaming of others that they seem like they’ll never climb out? I have a few people like that in my life....
by Wendy Nichol | Aug 14, 2018 | Behind The Music
Every now and then I’m going to work in a new category. This is the first post for “Behind The Music.” After poling a couple friends I felt like this song was a great start. Mostly because this one got the #1 vote but also because I feel like fear is...
by Wendy Nichol | Jun 25, 2018 | Weekly Writing
My canvas isn’t flat… It isn’t pulled, tightly wrapped around a wooden frame with perfect 90 degree angles. Perhaps most of us are like this… I don’t know. While I’ve stressed mercilessly over every stroke I am definitely not a color-inside-the-lines or...
