Songwriting is the act of baring one's soul to another in the form of words and music.
“Hold on to Me” speaks to my soul, especially those times when I am just barely hanging on…i.e. every other day! I love the prayer in the lyric for Jesus to “hold on to me” when I am barely breathing, don’t believe in myself, when the weight of expectation is too heavy, when I don’t feel worth defending and tired of pretending….hold on to me!
I have been wanting to arrange more of the newly added LDS hymns and this was one that someone in a comment from another video had recommended I do, this and Gethsemane. I finally was able to do them both!
“Where Can I Turn for Peace?” YouTube Link “Where Can I Turn for Peace?” ARTICLE Link Ever since I created this arrangement of “Where Can I Turn for Peace?”, this hymn has had new meaning for me. For some reason,
My husband and I really enjoyed October 2025 General Conference. As I watched the Saturday session, I was impacted by so many messages.
Amazing Grace has been added to the new LDS hymnbook! Yay. I remember that the first time we sang it in my ward in sacrament meeting about 6 months ago, it was a powerful experience. Everyone already knew the hymn well and we just sang it out. It is a powerful song.
Today I want to share a song I worked on with a family friend. Korene reached out to me this summer with a few songs she had written and hired me to help her work on them and write a piano accompaniment for them so she could submit the songs to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
I am hoping the song will speak for itself. But in writing it, I tried to inspire action on the topic that I was asked to write about…”How can we come to know Jesus Christ in the scriptures so that one day, when he comes again, we will actually know him and have a close relationship with him?”
This arrangement of “Baptism” is a beautiful adult/child duet with Marilee & Blake Roberts, recorded Jan 2023. This song is a suggested song for the Come Follow Me Lesson: June 23–29: “Worth … the Riches of the Whole Earth”
This is part 1 of an interview I did with Chad Cleverly for The Connecting Neighbors Podcast. It was really fun to speak with him and I am so glad he asked me! This is the first half of the interview in which he asked me about my childhood, music and about our family.
This video is an instrumental lyric video of the song “Shine On” from the LDS Children’s Songbook. This song talks about allowing the light of Jesus Christ to shine through us everyday, just as the sun rises each day.