Jessica's Blog

Yesterday as I was talking to my guitarist Taylor (@enloe) he mentioned he has this little guitar riff that he had come up with that he was wondering if I would be able to come up with something for. He said he wouldn’t be able to really use it for his band, it didn’t really fit his style. So he sent it to me. The minute I listened to it I was hooked. It’s amazing, because when creativity starts bubbling inside you, the only way I can explain it is like a sizzle. It’s brewing and bubbling and you just...

This blog post was written as a guest blogger for the cancer awareness site solitarius.org     When I first arrived in the States with the high flying ambition to “make it” in the music industry, someone once told me that the difference between the ones who make it and the ones who don’t is perseverance. You would think it would be talent, or even money… But it makes sense that the ones who actually make it are the ones who never give up. When I really decided to listen to my heart and do what makes me happy I...

I couldn’t quite figure out why I was feeling so uneasy about heading east this time. I’ve gone to Tennessee and Indiana before, why was this time to different? And then it hit me: I have never done this before. Every other time I have gone east to play shows I have either driven there and so been able to bring everything I needed with me or been able to rely on other people to set things up for me. Or both. This time I’m on my own. And I feel partially excited about it and partially nervous. It’s funny...

When disaster strikes in the world we can't not feel it everywhere. As a species we are interconnected. And when other people hurt, it hurts. When your best friend is in pain, you're in pain.  But the same goes for joy. We can choose lift each other up or bring each other down. Even though I believe no one makes you feel anything - you still have a choice on whether you want to focus on the positive or the negative in a situation. And you have the choice to voice the positive or the negative to others. In the...

So the moral of Blackjack is that even if you follow the rules you can still lose. I just spent a weekend in Vegas, and I finally found a game I thought was interesting. I may have lost some money but the lessons I learned were priceless. I have gone through life following the rules. Being a good girl. Doing things "right". Every time I broke the rules I would pay, sometimes way more than my rule breaking would call for. I was the one who would always get caught no matter what I did.  It made me think of...