This song is about parents' ongoing grief from having suffered the loss of a child.

This song is about the delicate, complicated, constantly in need of tending to, things we call "couples" ... and about the also-wonderful and places called "honky-tonks," where couples couple.

This is a song about my experience with, Jesus, my higher power.

This a song about someone being the last person in the relationship to realize it's over.

This is a story about addiction recovery.

A story about two imperfect people finding unexpected love with one another despite their respective reluctance.

This song is about the extraordinary abundance I feel like I have been given, which, to me, seems like highway robbery in light of the conditions facing so many people in the world. My fortune has been unearned, insufficiently appreciated, yet ongoing.

This is a nod to the great women in our lives, whose nurturing, character, and uniqueness as moms give rise to some of the best, most resilient parts of our character and that of our children.

Upbeat Country Rock song about that time of life when kids are about to leave the nest and explore a whole new world while figuring what to make of the advice they heard as kids, like the Tom Petty's many words of wisdom.