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"Consolation"

Consolation is a word we use after someone has experienced a loss. We can console one another with comforting words. We can console...

Merrill Crissey

Oct 16, 20201 min read

1 - Don't try to sound like someone else. It's inevitable that everyone's music will resemble someone else's. We are all influenced by...

Merrill Crissey

Aug 11, 20202 min read

I've written before about overcoming writer's block. My favorite piece of advice on the subject is to "just keep writing." But what...

Merrill Crissey

Jun 18, 20204 min read

In my last post, I mentioned the author C.S. Lewis. In his autobiographical work Surprised by Joy he talks about an experience he had...

Merrill Crissey

May 26, 20203 min read

When I was growing up there were a couple of movies that would air on TV about once every year. One was The Sound of Music and the other...

Merrill Crissey

May 6, 20203 min read

There are nearly as many ways to compose as there are composers. Sometimes I write by just noodling around the piano until something...

Merrill Crissey

Feb 11, 20204 min read

I remember wading through a sea of people in Namba train station still dazed from the ridiculously long flight across the Pacific. I met...

Merrill Crissey

Jan 6, 20203 min read

With a new year coming up soon I figured I would get a head start on my resolutions. These are ideas that I have either benefited from...

Merrill Crissey

Dec 2, 20194 min read