Day 21: Merry Christmas, Y’all!
Just a song for you, hoping you are warm and with someone who gets you. Thanks for reading! Dolly Parton’s “Hard Candy Christmas." Can you taste this photo?
Day 20: A Song that Is Not About Christmas but oh well
A sweatshirt I do not own, sad face, from Life Is Good. How had any idea I would be able to post this much? I didn’t! If I [...]
Day 19: A Song from the Wreck Your Heart Playlist
I own this print by VatnInk from Etsy. You’re all busy this week, I assume. The making of the holly and jolly for everyone else in your household [...]
Day 18: You Have to Ask for What You Want
A piece on the wall at the Patsy Cline Museum in Nashville. Patsy Cline is in the Grand Ole Opry because she said, Hey, hoss. Deal me in. [...]
Day 17: Let’s Go to Nashville!
A Chicago girl went to Nashville to research for Wreck Your Heart. These were her adventures. Custom shirt of my favorites. Serious face trying to get a selfie with all [...]
Day 16: Song from the Wreck Your Heart Playlist
No country music playlist is complete without something from Dolly Parton. Even if you don’t like country music— Right? The story behind the song “Jolene,” according to Dolly herself, is [...]
Day 15: Country Music Trivia, Blue Suede Edition
Have you watched the Ken Burns documentary, Country Music? Look, maybe you think you don’t like country music enough for that. Fair. But if you like music at all, you [...]
Day 14: Welcome to McPhee’s Tavern
Wreck Your Heart is set at McPhee’s Tavern, where the owner, Alex, has built a stage for Dahlia and her band to perform. (You’re going to like Alex.) I wrote [...]
Day 13: Song from the Wreck Your Heart Playlist
Not every song on the Wreck Your Heart playlist is country music. Country proper, anyway, now that we’ve established that country isn’t just one thing. This song is from Noah [...]
Day 12: Wreck Your Heart Featured in Publishers Weekly’s Endnotes
This is a fun thing that happened this week. Wreck Your Heart got the 360-degree treatment over at Publishers Weekly’s Endnotes, a special series where the publication asks the author, [...]
