When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be.

It occurred to me that a food drive would be a natural way to talk to kids about hunger, which so many of them simply aren't aware of.

Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.

I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.