More About Ruth

Ruth in Pieces grew out of a life that didn’t happen in neat little chapters.

There has been love here. Marriage and babies. Sisters and laughter. Faith and doubt. Grief, anger, ordinary Tuesday mornings, some spectacular mistakes, and more than a few things that made better sense looking backward.

The songs come from those places.

I don’t pretend to have figured out the secret to a beautiful life. I’m still trying to make sense of my own.

But I’ve always had words. Sometimes too many of them. And somewhere along the way, writing became a way to say things I hadn’t always known how to say out loud.

Some of those words became songs.

And the pieces?

They aren’t just the broken things.

They’re the people I’ve loved, the things I was taught, the things I stopped believing, old wounds, inside jokes, memories, mistakes, joy, grief, and every version of myself I’ve been along the way.

Ruth does not start over. She reworks what remains.

These songs are some of those pieces.

Maybe you’ll recognize a few of your own in them.