As the rain from clouds of relentless grief began to subside a little, I began to hear this quiet voice telling me to record an album in memory of my sweet Karen. I thought "great idea, no other musician has ever thought of doing that before. Just what the world needs". I believe the word "stupid" is what came to mind (sorry God). The voice, the idea, just wouldn't go away, so I ventured down the road of "Okay, if it's You, then I need this and that to make me believe in it". Those things transpired and left me no option accept to go forward with the project. I knew it would be super-time consuming, but I didn't really comprehend how amazingly time consuming it would be, or that giving it an entire year to complete it would be grossly underestimating how much time it would actually take! Since it has been funded by others, that pretty much locked me into finishing it no matter what. I am hopeful that that is a good thing. The selection of the 12 songs was a very fluid thing, some of the original ones being dropped, and some being written after deciding to do the project.

 

I developed this website to serve two distinctly different purposes:

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1. To create a "Home Base" for the recording project of "Karen My Darling"

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2. To help and provide information about the thoughts and feelings that result from losing one's spouse

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