Here it is the last day of 2025 and I decided I should put together a collection of clips from my favorite songs I wrote in 2025.
Liner notes for each song are in the description on YouTube.
Thank you all for stopping by to read, listen, like, and comment!
Happy New Year!
So here I am this morning sipping my coffee, telling a story about my disco days, my black disco outfit, my black (Le Black Cat) Capri and I remembered this song from FAWM 25. And the story behind the song and how it may have a new name (ghosting), but it’s nothing new.
What’s a girl to do? Live your best life, of course. :)
(This song is from the “7 Keys to my Heart” album on Bandcamp).
People often ask me how living in Las Vegas compares to living in Florida and this (in the video) is what I tell them. As for the rest, it comes from a lifetime of people watching and eavesdropping – lol!
The song is a remix of an original I wrote during 50/90 2023 called “A Woman’s Dilemma.”
Hope you enjoy!
I seem to set a few of my stories on cruise ships. It’s the perfect setting to me. The location is mostly contained, which I find very helpful as a writer, and I happen to live not far from a cruise port where I love to hang out for a bit of breakfast after church early Sunday morning. It’s a perfect day.
“Star of the Seas” is in port on Sundays right now. We’re counting down to our cruise on her with a stop at “Perfect Day at Coco Cay.” So it’s a perfect day in more ways than one.
Here’s my latest short video on YouTube.
Counting down to my 25th cruise, I’m remembering my first published novel – the one that got me an agent. And how another agent had said that “Cyn was fabulous!” Maybe this will motivate me back to writing “Night Moon” for Nov/Nov, although I might have to change the setting to a cruise ship – lol!
Here’s a little audio excerpt I did for YouTube.
This year’s rocktober is winding down. Rocktober is when our little songwriting group shares cover songs. This song stood out from “The Voice” last week. I struggled with the chorus because I don’t have the chops to hit those high notes. So I went lower but to compensate for the build of the chorus through the vocals, I gave the piano a boost to build the excitement of the chorus.
Praying for the people of Jamaica!
So I was streaming some IndiePop songs on YouTube and found this one by OneRepublic – it caught my ear so I had to give it a Screamie Birds spin for Rocktober.
Mixed in headphones (recommended for listening).
Kathy Holmes @ Screamie Birds Studios 