HazyShade Productions

I just turned (mumble mumble) years old on Tuesday. A surprise came in my email the next day: an honorable mention for a song I'd entered in the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest sometime last year. And it was NOT in the…

I might have seen God on a train. No, “seen” isn’t the right word. Touched? No, that’s not right either. I might have experienced God on a train. Or maybe it was just a dream. To this day, I am…

I've posted about every song in the upcoming "Letters from Gilead" album, except for this one. I'm not sure why it took me so long. I wrote this song and uploaded the rough take to SoundCloud over a year ago…

Finally. Finally! I finished the 10th song, the last song, the title track for the upcoming album, "Letters from Gilead." In the Hulu adaptation of "The Handmaid's Tale", the Mayday resistance movement collected letters from women suffering under Gilead's oppressive…

The end of episode 10 in season 2 of "The Handmaid's Tale" had me bawling my eyes out. It was one of the saddest things I have ever seen on TV. Its impact was especially forceful because of the things…

He's guilty. So obviously guilty.

When I wrote my song "Guilty," several years ago, it had nothing whatsoever to do with what's going on today. 

Tonight, just before the Orange Thing in the White House started its State of the…

This is a song that was a very long time, and a very short time in the making. For the longest time - maybe a year? - the only lyrics were the line "I'm laying low, I'm laying low, I'm laying oh so low."

"...I would go along the hall and down the Marthas' stairs at the back and through the kitchen... I would hurry across the few feet of illuminated lawn... 

I want to see what can be seen, of him, take him…

"'That one there, the one in green, she's a sociologist. Or was. That one was a lawyer, that one was in business, an executive position; some sort of fast-food chain or maybe it was hotels. I'm told you can have quite a good conversation with her if all you feel like is talking. They prefer it here, too.' 

"Here I am in the closet. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. I can't see it in the dark but I trace the tiny scratched writing with the ends of my fingers, as if it's a code in Braille. It…

I thought I might post my songs in the "Letters from Gilead" series in the order they were written, but I'm scrapping that idea right now. Tonight, I feel like sharing my newest song, "Feels So Good to…

It was a little under a year ago that I decided I was going to compose an entire album based on "The Handmaid's Tale." 

I had binge-watched seasons 1 and 2 of the Hulu series, and reread the book…