Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and this is Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

As a mom of four kids in New York City and a writer myself, I know all too well how short everyone is on time, so I'm here to help.

I'm going to interview authors and writers of all types about their work, especially as it

relates to parenting and family issues. Hopefully you can listen while doing 8 million other things

and fall in love with these talented scribes in their fantastic books, essays, and songs like I have,

plus get some tips on surviving parenthood. For more about me,

you can check out my essays at Zibby Owens.com. Also, this episode has been sponsored by Chloe's

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Hi, Dan. Hello. I'm here with Dan Lottie, singer-songwriter from Danger Muffin, who's

going to answer a few questions about his

amazing talents.

Oh, right.

I'd love to.

Awesome.

So how and when did you start songwriting?

Well, I was very young when I started.

Actually, when I was like three years old, we this old piano in in like a part of our house

and I picked out like we three kings like way back in the day just out of the blue and my parents

were like oh my god how does this three year old picking out this thing and then when I was in like

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