We believe there is a real need for deeper human connections not being met in our culture.

After all, there's only so much you can say in a 150 character Tweet. Even among people you know, it's difficult to say how you REALLY feel to your friends, your family, and even to your self sometimes. There's always a new show on Netflix, some social drama to tap into, or thing to have (but don't need)-- we all know though, these things can only do so much to bring real happiness and fulfillment into our lives.

So what if you found a way to say more and express how you truly feel? This is why we created Gracenotes-- to catalog people's real life stories, feelings, and slices of wisdom; to combat the noise of everyday life with deep and meaningful storytelling, powered by people who have something to say.

In general, I have always been a romantic when it comes to love in the fairy tale sense. I always thought I was in love from my first boyfriend in Kindergarten, Brandon to my husband Joseph. As I grow and am able to look back, I realized love, or the people I have loved in my youth in a romantic sense, was a feeling of belonging and understanding I yearned for. For the longest time I thought that sense of belonging was found in another person....

Legacy. I struggle with legacy. How do I want to be remembered? How will I be remembered? Have I done anything worth remembering? Such questions are hard for me to think about because facing my own mortality is difficult. I worry that my struggle has already limited me, that it’s already too late to be someone worth remembering...

I remember back in high school I’d spend my mornings on the weekend shooting the shit with my mother at the kitchen table. We’d split a pot of coffee (or two), and chainsmoke a box of Winston Ultralight 100’s. Our mugs would be full to the brim with lightly beige colored coffee given the obscene amounts of cinnamon-hazelnut creamer we’d add in, and in no time the room would smell sweet and smoky as we spun ourselves into a web of deep conversation....