THE WORDS & MEMORIES ORBIT

A life, on the record.

Songs that bring you back. People who stay with you. Wander through Nick’s writing, one memory at a time.

9 storiesNEWEST MEMORIES FIRST

54 to 54Dec 2, 2019DAY 19

Setting Sail

Recently Chris and I discovered Modern Love, an Amazon Prime series based on a weekly column from the pages of The New York Times. Each episode is a real life situation, but each one is different from the…

53 to 53Dec 7, 2018DAY 14

Can’t Stop The Feeling

Finally, a happy song! Admit it, you love this song too! It makes you feel electric-wavy! I haven’t seen Trolls, but I can tell you Can’t Stop The Feeling by heartthrob JT is definitely one of my favorite…

53 to 53Dec 1, 2018DAY 20

You Are Loved Don’t Give Up

This song happened onto the world around 2006, just before I met my Woof and during the years that my sister was fighting her greatest battle. I remember pretty clearly a, autumn day in 2007 at the start of…

52 to 52Dec 19, 2017DAY 1

You’re The Best Thing

I am lucky enough to say I got to marry my best friend three years ago on this day. I don’t know how it happened, and I can only wish that any of you reading this can say the same thing, but somehow I found…

52 to 52Dec 16, 2017DAY 5

Gravity

This song by this amazing, contemporary singer/songwriter just truly speaks for itself. We’ve all heard Sara Bareilles’ mega hits all over the radio and even now on Broadway, but Gravity is, to me, not just…

51 to 51Nov 19, 2016DAY 32

Calling You

Calling You, by alternative rock band Blue October, is an anthem to obsessive love. It holds one of my favorite lyrics in any love song: I can’t believe you actually picked me. This song came to be popular…

51 to 51Nov 8, 2016DAY 43

Time After Time / All Through The Night

Cyndi Lauper is an enigmatic oddball with a unique sound that paved a bridge between pop and new wave and added another eighties bombshell to the charts. She’s So Unusual is such a great album. It spurred…

50 to 50Dec 21, 2015DAY 0

Finale [In The Heights]

Of all the music in all the genres from all the time eras, it’s been REALLY difficult to cull down 50-ish songs as favorites. I love music. Music is joy and sorrow, an outlet and a hope chest. Songs…

50 to 50Dec 4, 2015DAY 17

Chasing Cars

Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol is an unassuming little ballad from the later aughts, and for me it’s a comfortable, beautiful song about knowing you’ve found the one, again. I met my Woof and he was wounded;…