Wow, I almost felt yesterday as if I was going to be swallowed up like a building in that humongous sinkhole in Guatemala. Every time I looked to the top of my computer screen, my Alexa toolbar shouted at me about death and destruction: “Porn actor goes on rampage at video production office”, “UK taxi driver kills 12, wounds 25 in England” or “Holloway suspect sought in Peru killing.” Holy mother of the universe, what the HELL IS GOING ON?

Dating. Ugh, even typing the word makes me squirm. Now, I’m hardly interested in being the Carrie Bradshaw of holistic dating. So don’t worry, this will probably be the only post you’ll see on this topic from me. And yet it’s such an endless topic of intrigue to most everyone I know, coupled or single, looking or content, that I feel compelled to write about it once.

If you haven’t heard of Melanie Edwards yet, don’t worry, you will before long. This smart, gorgeous, hilarious, and poetic singer-songwriter has been rocking it out in clubs all over NYC for the last few years. Now, she’s put an insane amount of work and love into her first album, Between the Binary. Like any project we develop and create, there is a holistic process involved that makes us grow as individuals and as a collective culture. Here, Melanie describes her own holistic reality of birthing an album, all while attempting to stay sane.