Whenever I hear the word fabric, I automatically think about that cotton commercial with Aaron Neville singing the song. That thought has absolutely NOTHING to do with this post, I just wanted to share that with you all…

Writing is one of my most favorite things to do, but you would never know it sometimes based on how little I actually do it. That is my fault and my fault only. I have blamed it on many things, but at the end of the day it’s me who needs to take advantage of my time and do it. With that being said, I did that this morning and spent the first couple hours of my day with my friend, Debbie Drissell. I love spending time with her talking about writing processes and coming up with ideas for songs. I think if we spend more time together we may actually finish a song. Today, we came together and sat in what used to be a Target parking lot (my Kirkwoodians know what I’m talking about), and now it is affectionately known as Kaldi’s Coffee. We were going through ideas and songs that we have started (she’s working on a cool one right now) and slowly waking up with caffeinated assistance (we aren’t morning people). It hit me that if anyone could help me fix a huge writing error, it would be her. So, I asked her to help me fix one line of a song. I’m mostly fixing this song because of Jim, and I’d love him to see this new line and give me the big thumbs up. If you want to know, it’s the first line of the song I wrote about in this post that I needed to change. I let her read it and she thought the same thing that Jim thought, and I don’t know if that’s scary or if that was just a bad line. Either way, it has been fixed and I will probably be able to use this song in public now.

I am so glad to have people that are ‘woven into the fabric’ of my life (by the way, that’s how the line starts). I’m glad that I have people like Debbie in my life that I can call on a whim and meet at a coffee shop and talk about music. We both love to write and we both love to get together and talk about writing. I’m thankful for the friends that God has given me. I’m eternally thankful for Debbie saving my song from the depths of raunchiness. LOL Deb, that line helps me so much that I’m thinking of putting your name at the top of it as well. You’re a wonderful woman!