Last year at this time I was just starting my first CD project solely for the reason that I had always wanted to complete a record album while I was still able. After releasing "What We Still Haven't Learned" in 2006 and seeing it favorably received, however, I got very inspired to make another one! So I dug right in and started writing what I thought were another group of fictional songs. It occurred to me while I was finishing the recording, however, that rather than fictionalizing the song premises this time around, I had actually been subconsciously gathering ideas from my real life experience to form the basis of the compositions. I went through each song and was able to pick out the actual situation in my life that related to it (Except for the Barbie Doll song, of course... I have no idea where that one came from). As I thought about this revelation I asked myself - isn't this what we all do? Each of us have gathered bits and piece...