This is the first song I ever wrote. 

In 1998, the ladies organization of my church issued to all a booklet filled with good ideas for goals that would help us better ourselves.  The objective was to complete some from each category before a year was up.  I didn’t get a good start on the goals and figured I wouldn’t bother that year.  But, something inside me said, “Why not do something instead of nothing?”  To make a long story short, I did do just that. I remembered that one of the goals challenged me to write a poem or a song about my favorite gospel topic. For some reason, I thought to myself, “okay, I can do that.” I had never written a song before. I have not had any training in how to write music.  I have sung with choirs, but never had a voice lesson.  I have had piano lessons in which theory was more often overlooked than not. Yet, I knew I could do it. 

After I selected the topic, I believed that I could just sit down at the piano and write a song.  That is exactly what happened. The piano, voice and lyric parts all flowed from my mind into a jumbled mass of scribbles onto my legal pad that only I could interpret as music.  But it was a song.  I had done it. I had no idea if I had written in ¾ time or 4/4 time, what key signature it was in, or if I had done it “right”.  I did know that it came from my heart. I felt like it was good, but perhaps no one else would.  I hesitatingly shared it with my husband, who was thrilled.

Since that first song, I have written and arranged many songs, not all of which are listed on this website.  I have found that this is something I love to do.