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It’s March and I’m only just making my New Years post. From a website content perspective I really should have done this late December/early January but I didn’t for one simple reason: increasingly the

During my first 24 years of living in a capitalist western society not once did I ever consider that I would be personally and legally responsible for running and maintaining my own business. (I’m 26 now

Forward - This post was written in December of 2019 after my booking agent received an email from a venue that “totally supports live music”. I was very angry after reading the email. If you would like

After a sizeable break, I have begun to relaunch solo music project. I took a break from this project for many reasons: Anxiety related to sending emails and scheduling gigs, lack of time, lack of energy,

Forward: This post was written several months ago. Spoiler alert, I never ended up writing my own bio, but instead hired the lovely Adara Enthaler to write one for me. <3 ONTO THE POST read the full

THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE FUN And its sister statement “THIS WILL ONLY BE FUN IF YOU PUT IN EFFORT” frequently present themselves in my brain whilst taking group lessons and ensembles. Music is a really tricky

Just a quick post to say, Merry Christmas to all of you lovely humans! With the launch of the Twin Willows Patreon and the end of term 4 (which seemed to drag out for a whole month) I burnt out and got

I spend more time than I’d like to admit in my car. Long commutes aren’t just a strain on the environment, they’re also empty nothing time. Last year, after listening through (and promptly getting sick

And it’s nice to be officially back! I did the thing I always do when I disappear from this internet space - I overestimated how much work I could handle and burnt myself out hard core (the culprit this

Part two of my transport nightmare: I was stuck on an airplane for as hour and a half as it slowly turned into a weird social experiment. (Future Jen - this event happened two weeks ago and was written

I'm currently (future Jen - Currently is one week and a day ago) sitting at the Sydney domestic terminal feeling increasingly frustrated by what should have been a fairly straightforward trip to Melbourne.

I have a long history with Chaika’s music. From an early gig of theirs providing my very first opening slot with a throw together band, to their luscious harmonies accompanying my journey up and down the

It’s no secret that I think about a lot of things. As I move through the world learning about all the bizarre things we get up to as humans, I’m constantly gathering and analysing stuff about the formal

Next week I’m going to be posting some musings on my understanding of how society became the wasteful capitalist box in which we live our lives. Before I let those thoughts loose on the internet I wanted

At the start of 2018 I ended the emotionally abusive relationship I’d found myself in. We’d been together about a year and a half. The first few months were blissful, but little by little I found myself

All the “how to social media/get paid for your insert creative pursuit here” guides and articles say the same thing. Make good art, share it “correctly” on social media and they will come. But sometimes

I thought if I practiced my practice guilt would disappear, but if anything it’s made my practice guilt worse. Since the end of last year I’ve found myself a lovely practice routine that shrinks and grows

I’m not a person who likes to own a lot of bags. I have my “big” backpack for travelling overnight. I have my “small” shoulder bag for when I’m going on a “keys, wallet, phone” type occasion. Then I have

For as long as I can remember, being a functional human during winter has been a very difficult task. As the shorter days encompass the summer light, sadness inhabits every nook and cranny of my brain.

If you’ve ever had the pleasure of learning music, you may have noticed the prevalence of the phrase “one last time”. You may also be familiar with it’s other forms - “once more” or “one more time” or