DONT BE AFRAID OF THE FOREST
Dear World, Fairy tales often involve forests. In these thick, dark places it is easy to lose heart, easy to lose hope, easy to forget your way. Life often involves forests too. There are times in life when self-doubt, fear, grief, confusion seem to hover over us like...
What I learned from Kevin Bacon reading the bible
Dear World, There I was flipping through the channels in a Renaissance hotel in Newark, NJ bracing myself for a little sleep, an early morning, and a long day of travel afterwards. Suddenly my heart stops as my thumb clicks to CMT. Kevin Bacon is playing Ren McCormack...
It’s Good To Have a Taste for Traveling Alone
Dear World, For the first time in fifteen years I am officially an independent artist. My record label and I parted ways this summer on perfectly peaceful terms. The employees in that building watched me grow up (literally), and I will be forever grateful for the...
You are my sky full of light: a melancholic’s take on fireworks
Dear World, I think my favorite thing in life are fireworks. They remind us to look upward and to live life in full, bright colors. Aren’t you just filled with hope when you see the whole sky sparkle? Pope John Paul 2 said that beauty reminds us to, “Savor life and...
When You Feel Like Your Winter Is Lasting Forever
Dear World, Spring is a season of renewal, rebirth, remaking. Easter invites us to believe that things can be made new, that the end of the story is a good one, that our story is a good one. This winter has been a LONG one with snow still on the forecast…..grrreat. I...Meet Marie
Marie Miller is a singer, songwriter, and mandolin player from the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. She grew up on a small vineyard with her parents and nine siblings in an old house named Glenway. Let's Connect...