To The Light

Hi friends, I’ve moved my new writing and music over to Substack! Please join me over there! https://anneheaton.substack.com/

Mid-March 2020, as I was following grocery trips with rigorous showers and collapses into bed, and as I constantly worried about my Dr. brother who was working in a Covid clinic, I also wondered  how my kids would continue learning and how I could live purposefully during such an unusual time? Somewhere in this brain […]

I’m so excited to announce that my new album & accompanying storybook To the Light  comes out today and is available for purchase! I’m so delighted to share these songs with you, songs (& stories) that have come into the world over the last 9 years and truly are love notes from my heart to yours. […]

Our family recently moved to Milwaukee. It was a little unexpected. I felt excited about the prospect of a new adventure but super sad about leaving behind friends and the familiar. I thought to myself: Anne, you always hang on like crazy when it’s time to make a change, so why not, just this ONE […]

It’s hard to imagine now that it’s so sunny here in the Northern Hemisphere, but this past winter, a sinister depression crept in so that by March, my brain was not functioning the way it usually does. I was mad because I have so many tools (meditation, yoga, eating well) so I thought: “This shouldn’t […]

I was recently on an elliptical machine in a hotel gym in downtown Indianapolis. As I started to work out, a slew of thoughts ensued. I looked out the window onto downtown Indy and said to myself: “I should really be outside instead.” Then I thought about how I should be running harder, that an […]

Lately, something has happened to me. When I used to tell stories or try to explain where I was coming from, I’d usually end my story with “I don’t know” or “I don’t know if that makes any sense.” And, without really knowing it, it always made me a little sad to be so excited […]

Hi beloved friends, I’ve missed writing to you! I’ve been working behind the scenes on my new record as well as creating this music video. I’m really happy to be sharing the song “Joy” with you now. You can watch the video, directed by Toko Shiiki, HERE The story behind the song… In 2016, I […]

When I was around 24, I met a young man who played blues guitar. I really liked the way he played and my dream was to ask him if he’d play songs with me. Soon after, I found out he liked Tori Amos so I grew emboldened to ask him. Would he say yes? One […]

My grandpa “Moose” as we called him had many careers. He was a state policeman, he laid pipe line, he worked for a dairy farm and he also played Triple-A baseball and coached little league. But he loved nothing like he loved music. I learned my affinity for melody from him. He used to play […]