Category: The Beach Boys

• Music: The Sensory Edition

  If you know me, or have followed this blog for any amount of time, you realize that I love music. I use music for mood alteration, inspiration, and escape. My preferred listening method is live, in concert. For sanity sake, I try to attend at least two live performances a year but life doesn’t always…

  Carrie Dalby

  February 7, 2014

  ASD Autism Spectrum Disorders, Aspergers, autism, blog, children, concerts, Disney, Europe, family, homeschooling, inspiration, Listen, Mitch Malloy, MUSIC, road trips, sensory issues, spectrum, The Beach Boys

• Ricky Nelson Remembered

  Last month, I posted more information about the vacation I took in the spring, focusing on the Friday morning I spent at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine. This time around I’m going to focus on my night out in Morristown, NJ. Those who know me—or have been following this blog for long—realize that…

  Carrie Dalby

  September 22, 2012

  birthday, concerts, CORRODED, family, Fantabutitus, Geeks, Gunnar Nelson, LIFE, memories, Morristown, MUSIC, NJ, NYC, pictures, playlist, Rick Nelson, soundtrack, The Beach Boys, VACATION

• Corroded Soundtrack

  The thing for authors—especially young adult ones—to do these days is to create PLAYLISTS for their novels. I’ve written song lists for SOUNDTRACKS (because I see my stories as movies in my head) for all my writing, beginning twenty years ago. Yes, with the first novel-length story I began at the age of fourteen, I…

  Carrie Dalby

  August 13, 2011

  CORRODED, Europe, Gunnar Nelson, hair bands, Hanson, inspiration, Linkin Park, Metal Edge, MUSIC, playlist, Rick Nelson, soundtrack, teens, The Beach Boys, Tyketto, WRITING