Matthew L. Kearns 

For the past several months, my life required a reset of priorities, changes in focus. As I ended 2024, I had put much effort into...

This feeling of being shellshocked is something I have some familiarity with. Trauma can have significant impact to areas of your life....

Yesterday, I spent a very nice evening out, both to see a modern choral concert put on by the Seattle choral ensemble, Opus 7 at St....

Recently, I achieved a personal milestone in healing and self-care. Two and a half years ago, i set out on a 25,000 plus step walking...

So far, this week has given me opportunities to complete many necessary beginning of the year tasks, most of which have nothing to do...

My frequency of contacts with others diminished drastically over the events of 2024. Toward the end of last year, I reached a...

Amid the backdrop of downtown Seattle, and yes!! I'm definitely a football fan in December and a Seahawk season ticket holder. How does...

Ok, so in this two weeks, we had a major bomb cyclone storm here which knocked my power out almost three days. The storm cancelled a key...

Some thoughts giving me a happy outlook today on a personal level.. Often, I wake up in challenging emotional states, but today much...

I'm glad to have planned a quiet weekend. Lot's of thoughts to process, and I am listening to my friends and others sharing thoughts...

This November 2024 has so much collective anxiety in the air that you can cut it with a knife. Of course, the US elections coming this...

I'm not one to share my personal judgements, but I do believe that my observations and experiences around Narcissism and the traumas that...

It is commonly said that music can pull on the threads of your emotions. Music can create feelings in complicated ways for some of us....

Over this past year, I've gained a better sense of self. It's been a very difficult and somewhat lonely year for me and I won't be out of...

I'm still in the middle of an unforeseen pause for another 3-4 weeks. Some of you know that I took a brief vacation to celebrate the...

Right now this website has a limited audience even though most of the usability updates are done. Outside of a few musical connections,...

Much of my work these next couple of weeks will be focusing on usability. Right now there is only a small group of people who have been...

Well I have been spending time on the Alphasongs.net mobile site. I can say it is now much more readable and functional. You can pretty...

So one of the key reasons to have a soft launch is to have a little quiet time to catch anything not working correctly on the...

At least I am up and the website is now in a soft launch for the rest of the moth while I continue to test and fix bugs (which you are...