What is the story and inspiration behind chips?
“Chips” is a story about choosing the “good guy” vs. the “bad boy”. It is a story about growing up, recognizing and breaking the generational patterns of marrying “bad boys”. I wrote this song a long time ago and had it stored 1,800 miles away in my mother’s tool shed in South Carolina. When we sold my mother’s house a few weeks ago, I flew to South Carolina, under the guise of attending to respectable business matters, such as selling a house. Truthfully, I only went to retrieve this song. Dramatically and almost too predictably, it was in the last box I opened and rescued it from the horrible fate of the county dump. The power of the written word lasts for years and sometimes will only be rescued if it is threatened by the trash. What do you prefer to write: fiction, nonfiction or a mix? My writing has always been a mixture of both fiction and nonfiction. When the truth (nonfiction) part of life was/is too much, I have always coped by creating a vision of the way I want things to be
