Those who have known me for a while, or have followed my site or my now defunct livejournal know that I love advent calendars. I’m not religious — I’m not even Christian — but I’ve always loved Christmas, and I’ve always found advent calendars to be somewhat magical. In the past I’ve done my own, several times with original fiction, short flash pieces for each day leading up to the holiday. The thing is, I’m at a point in my writing career where I can’t just rattle off a short piece in a day and feel comfortable posting it. It just doesn’t work. But I have been working on songwriting, and improving myself as a musician and I thought to myself, maybe I could do it with songs.

So here I am, getting it in under the wire (it’s 11:42 PM as I write this in Brooklyn) and I am committing to a Song Advent Calendar — 1 song a day leading up to Christmas. They might be videos or audio only, they might be old or new, they might be covers or originals. But I am committing to putting up a song every day for 24 days, starting now.

This song, “Back in School”, was already posted on my Facebook page earlier this year, and is the sole entry on my Youtube page, but since this was a late decision today, I’m going to go with it. Anything after this will be new to all of you. This song is an original. More about this idea and songwriting in future posts.

Without further adieu: