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  • Steve the King – Canada’s Absolute Monarch September 27, 2015Steve the King - Canada's Absolute Monarch

    The brand new version of my Harper song, with new verses detailing even more of the crap he’s done to Canada:

    KING STEVE

    ©2014 Marie-Lynn Hammond

    Oh, my name is Stephen Harper and I’ve come here to confess
    A secret dream that some of you perhaps might easily guess
    For I had great ambitions ...

  • RIP Monet, a Very Special Rescue Cat January 31, 2015RIP Monet, a Very Special Rescue Cat

    FOR MONET: LOVE WITH A CAPITAL “L”

    May 2000—January 2015

    I was Love with a capital L. Love and light. My human named me after her favourite painter, Monet, who painted his impressions of sunlight with loose brush strokes. She thought I was like a white canvas dabbed with the odd brush ...

  • A Canadian Best-Kept Secret Close to Extinct January 9, 2013A Canadian Best-Kept Secret Close to Extinct

    What’s small, mighty, and almost extinct? Sadly, the answer is right in our Canadian backyard.

    Those of you who know me and my music know that I’ve already written a song about the rare Canadian Horse, or cheval canadien — the only horse breed to have developed in Canada. I used to own one, and in ...

  • Flames & Sequins – Xmas 2012 December 19, 2012Flames & Sequins - Xmas 2012

    Most of you know by now that I’m a dismal failure at the holiday greetings thing. I’m a dismal failure, in fact, at the whole holiday thing in general. I’m sorry for all the cards I haven’t sent, the gatherings I didn’t get to, the Christmas dinners I’ve politely turned down.

    After years of feeling guilty ...

  • “Children of Peace” — Research for a Song April 23, 2012"Children of Peace" -- Research for a Song

    (This first appeared, with slight changes, on my Yorkscene.ca blog 9 Feb 2011)

    Yes, I’m doing research for a song. Because not all songs are about the writer’s navel-gazing feelings, or about love, that bottomless pit of inspiration (and too often cliché) for songwriters.

    I love writing songs on unusual topics and songs that tell stories. If ...

  • In the Land of One Hand February 19, 2012In the Land of One Hand

    I recently broke my wrist engaging in that traditional Canadian winter pastime, slipping on a sidewalk that didn’t look slippery.

    I won’t bore you with details of the ensuing saga related to two hospitals and the casts they’ve put on me and then had to modify because of the pain the last one was causing (hmm, ...

  • You Can Be a Record Producer! November 5, 2011You Can Be a Record Producer!

    It’s true. You can even be MY record producer, or at least an honorary one. All it takes is some money. But before you label me a total mercenary, read on…

    You may have noticed these days the indie record/music scene is almost as big as the non-indie scene – if not in terms of dollars, ...

  • Music & Horses September 11, 2011

    Sometimes, as a musician, your music life spills over into other areas of your life – and vice versa. Lately, for me, that’s happening in a big way: my music and my passion for horses are trotting along together in tandem.

     And no, I haven’t run off to join the Mounties and their Musical Ride. But ...

  • Writing Beyond My Means July 12, 2011

    (Originally posted June 11, 2011 at Yorkscene.com)

    Some people live beyond their means. I write beyond my means. What I’m saying is that I write songs that are sometimes too complicated for me to easily perform.

    I recently went into the studio with a really accomplished pianist, Marilyn Lerner. She was my first-ever piano player, just a ...