If you really want to get into the meditation zone, you need, if not complete silence, then meditation music — ambient, world, classical, jazz, or anything that draws you into your own contemplative space, usually music that’s free of voices or any audio distractions that force you to think or that draw you away from… Read more »

If you live to write or love to sing, then you’ll treasure writing ditties.  And if you ever wrote a winning essay, you could be filthy rich writing lyrics. As a teen, I’d scrawl several songs a day—mostly when I felt glum.  But my hillbilly voice constrained my song writing.  I could scarcely sing outside… Read more »