From the kitchen table

The blog.

Notes from the kitchen table — songwriting, inspiration, slow life. Written between songs, mostly with a coffee getting cold next to me.

These are the things I notice — slowly, mostly at the kitchen table. The songs as they come together, the people who keep showing up, and the moments that wanted to be written down before they passed.

Latest · 11 posts

Recent writings.

Liva dipping her feet in the chill water in the harbour bath

On writing The Cup Itself

A slow cafe song about the first warm day of spring at the harbour bath — and a small philosophical thought that landed on me there. About what we measure, what we should look at instead, and the question I think I have been getting wrong my whole life.

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Liva at her kitchen table with coffee, phone to her ear, listening

On writing Where I Learned to Breathe.

A slow Sunday coffee jam about the only phone call I make when nothing else is working — my dad, five thousand miles away, and the quiet way he keeps teaching me how to step out of my own way.

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If You Only See the Shadows

On writing If You Only See the Shadows.

A slow cafe jazz song about the way negativity becomes a habit — and the strange experience of writing a song to myself, by name, to make it stop.

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Liva and Emblu relaxing after the sauna

A long needed spa day with Emblu.

Weights, warm water, a sauna where nothing stays private — and a plate of sushi at the end of a day that felt like exactly what I needed.

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Liva songwriting in her bedroom

On being the songwriter of my own songs.

The quiet work behind the songs — notebooks, voice notes, late nights, unfinished lines, and the strange courage of telling the truth in your own words.

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One Street Over

On writing One Street Over.

A song about cycling past someone's door and feeling — for the first time — absolutely nothing. And how that nothing turned out to be everything.

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Let It Stay Like This

On writing Let It Stay Like This.

A song about the fragile moment before something becomes real — and the quiet fear of losing it the second you reach for it.

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Still in the Air — songwriting

How Still in the Air was written, in three sittings.

The first verse came at 5am. The chorus came two weeks later, in a car. The bridge took a year.

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Da Nang in My Head

On writing Da Nang in My Head.

I went for a month. Everything was vibrant. Then — without knowing why — time started to flow differently.

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A morning, slowly

A morning, slowly.

What slow mornings do for your health, energy, and mind — and how they became the reason I wrote "Between the Drops".

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Friendship doesn't count distance

Friendship doesn't count distance.

A childhood friendship that always picks up right where it left off — no matter how far, no matter how long.

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