Finding Life in Creativity
How I Found Life As An Artist
5 min readJul 4, 2018
I wrote my first song after leaving home.
At eighteen, I’d moved out of my house in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and landed at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh as a college freshman. It was my first time living away from home.
Feeling the loneliness of being a 5-hour drive from all that was familiar, I wrote a song…