https://mara-eilish-walsh.demo.skipstatic.com/feed.xmlmara eilish walsh — the journal2026-03-08T00:00:00Zmara eilish walshhttps://mara-eilish-walsh.demo.skipstatic.com/journal/rel_01KRCCDJYS5Y5HG751GPY81P9Ton writing the same song forty times2026-03-08T00:00:00Zmara eilish walshi have a folder on my laptop called *maybe*. it has, currently, four hundred and twelve voice memos. most of them are the same song. i am writing the same song. i think most of us are writing the same song. it is fine.https://mara-eilish-walsh.demo.skipstatic.com/journal/rel_01KRCCDK7CEF7QKXHAB9C3NMVBthe cello case2026-02-19T00:00:00Zmara eilish walshniamh's cello case has a sticker on it that says SLOW DOWN, in a font that looks like it was printed at a kinko's in 1996. she got it from a stranger in portland. she will not tell me which one.https://mara-eilish-walsh.demo.skipstatic.com/journal/rel_01KRCCDKFYX2ND1TCEDXTV9K4Ja small note about my mother2026-01-30T00:00:00Zmara eilish walshshe made me lasagna last night. she put olives in it. she has never once put olives in lasagna in my life and yet here they were, like commas in a sentence she meant to write a different way. i didn't say anything. i ate them. i am thirty next month.https://mara-eilish-walsh.demo.skipstatic.com/journal/rel_01KRCCDKRM0CAGN0NCH3N08H2Rwhy i don't tour with a band2025-12-11T00:00:00Zmara eilish walshi tried it once. four people in a sprinter van with a cooler that broke on day three. it wasn't bad — it was beautiful, actually — but i kept apologizing. for the songs being too quiet, for the rooms being too small, for the merch margins, for everything that was not anyone's fault.