Christa Wells

Following up on last week’s post, How to Love Your Independent Artist, Pt. 1, here is Part 2.  For some reason, I’m a bit nervous to hit “Publish” on this.  Not sure why…maybe I’m afraid it’s going to sound self-centered or whiny or self-serving.  Please know it’s not intended to be anything more than vulnerable, [...]

Some fun sound & images for you today! A week ago, we crossed the mountains of western North Carolina after a 12-day trip to Boston/Cape Cod, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Needless to say, with the constant change of routine around here, my attempt to post anything regularly this summer did not pan out. Ah, well.  :) [...]

  Every artist   seeks   space.       We seek silence or solitude, communal space for collaboration, a space to share, a space to be heard, a space unfilled that wants what we have… I carve out summer space to write for new projects begun months ago and find the more I work, [...]

So, yes, by the time you see this, it is likely Tuesday, so perhaps “Tune Tuesday” will be more appropriate. I got caught up in children swimming and restoring some beauty and order to the chaos that is our master bathroom.  What is it about cleaning out one nasty drawer that can give one hope [...]

At least for the summer, I thought I’d challenge myself to a little more sharing here.  So, Mondays are for sharing music, whether mine or something I’m listening to a lot.  Today, this tune keeps coming to mind and heart.  More inspired lyric-writers than Linford and Karin are hard to come by. All My Favorite People [...]

Thinking about motherhood this week, as I watch the kids make secret plans for Sunday. Aware of how this phenomenon called parenting alters a person.  As she pushes her child away from her body and into the world, she begins the work of teaching him how to separate from her.  Slowly but surely, she prepares [...]

I’ve been learning freedom on a long, slow curve. Emphasis on slow. I believe that when we meet God…when He makes Himself known to us…the cage door is thrown open, we are given power to live BEYOND.  Beyond ourselves, beyond the temporal, beyond the visible, beyond… So why are so many of us still sitting [...]

Must.Write.Now. It’s a bit obvious when the songwriter in this house has stayed away too long from writing, because she starts getting just a LITTLE bit grumpy.  A TINY bit irritable.  Easily IRKED.  Not by political leaders or financial crises or even by semi-big deals like being behind (again) on emails or (chronically) filing paperwork. [...]

If you want to make a musician really happy, give us a chance to play side by side with some of our favorite fellow artists. It’s just…well…it’s just special. Like a kid in a candy shop. And it doesn’t hurt that some of the pressure of carrying a whole concert by yourself is relieved. I [...]

In Nashville this week, I had the rare opportunity to go out with Mom and hear some live music last night.  Listened to several accomplished songwriters at Cindy Morgan‘s benefit for the Leukemia Society sing in the round, telling stories – some lighthearted, some serious – about the music they have made, and perform them [...]