While Emma and her family were away I wrote her first song, Miss You. Aside from writing a silly birthday song for a friend many years ago, I’d never written any music. But this year I started taking piano lessons and was understanding more about song form and melody and harmony and found the process of creating a song really fun. I found a rehearsal studio nearby that had drums, a bass, a keyboard, and microphones, and spent hours there working on the music and recording. Then for one of Emma’s Christmas gifts I polished the recording and uploaded it to streaming services.