Dana Halle

First face to face meet up! After Michael Averill’s birthday challenge, I continued my musical journey by enrolling in his One Song...

Original Post of Birthday Challenge! By 2020, I had returned to songwriting and had produced and released eight original songs, each...

In 2019, I took a class called Writing into Light  with Martha Beck. The course was designed to guide participants through deep...

I wrote the ABOUT section for my website years ago, when I was first finding my way back to music. I'm firmly entrenched now, so I'm...

I was speaking with a friend yesterday about my WIL class with Martha Beck. I realized during the conversation that I have shared the...

I recently stumbled upon Zanna Keithley and really enjoyed this paragraph she wrote. I hope you will too. It's a good reminder for us at...

I have always felt drawn to this Rumi quote. I'm not sure if I want to meet a dear friend, loved one or myself, but the idea always...

I recently listened to a Rosanne Cash TedWomen 2021 talk. It was inspiring. She is a wonderful storyteller. In the talk, she shared music...

I thought I'd share another WIL piece. The prompt was to share an experience (or pattern of behavior) as if you were sitting around the...

Living wild and free is so much harder than it seems, but worth the effort, right?

A wish for each of us.

Two recent songs, "Invite It In 2.0" and "I'm Sorry" focus on the concepts of losing one's self and self forgiveness. During a...

This post was to Facebook, but wanted to share here too since not all my friends are on social media! Today is Nick's 23rd Birthday! I...

I am sitting at a “tech bar” in Terminal 2 at SFO (San Francisco) and decided to write a blog post. Why? Maybe to entertain myself (and...

I had the nicest discussion today with a group of women writers I met and bonded with during a Write Into Light class led by Martha Beck....

This quote from C.S. Lewis resonated with me after I started my musical journey. I think many of the people around me could not...

2020 has been dramatically different from anything we could have envisioned. Despite all of the difficulties Covid-19 brought, many of us...

This is another piece I wrote during my writing class with Martha Beck. A conversation with a fellow musician today reminded me of it and...

A Little Background: Last year I took a writing class by Martha Beck called Write Into Light. Using Dante's "The Divine Comedy" as a...

This poem by John Donohue (from To Bless The Space Between Us) has been inspirational to me as part of the whole “song sharing” process. ...

[This post was from the "About" section of my Facebook Page in August 2018. It describes my start back into music, so I wanted to share...