From the most recent Secret Supper, Academy Awards Edition, Rain and Tom don’t let a broken string deter them from embracing the Oscar-winning song with gusto.

Here’s video #1 from the Secret Songwriter Supper: Academy Awards Edition, featuring Tom Corbett and myself. I served food representing each nominated feature and we sang songs from movies. Fun!!!

Okay, I was worried as I drove out to the desert that after waiting for months for the time to go away to write I would get there and nothing would happen.

Well, NO! I wrote seven songs! I’m not promising all of them were good, but I wrote ‘em…

And I have been writing every day since! Just the jump start I needed.

It took me forever to get out to the 29 Palms Inn, but it was waiting for me with the lights on…

Got into my little room and set up all my stuff.

 

I love working out there because I can hide in a cool, funky room that reminds me of the places I lived when I was a kid. I can stop by Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods on the way out and if I want, never leave the room:

…except to go for walks around the oasis

and to say hi to the coyotes:

(She’s right in the middle. Kinda hard to see.) Then back to my cave:

…until it’s time to head back into the world, renewed with SEVEN SONGS!