Searching For Stars
A musical memoir - told through story, sound, and echolalia.
What if memory had a soundtrack?
What if healing came in mixtapes?
Searching for Stars is a nostalgic musical memory project—
a living memoir told in fragments of story and sound.
A book and audio experience about finding light in the dark,
blending spoken word, music, memory, and the rhythm of echoes.
It’s the feeling of memory and sounds when they reverberate inside us.
Built on the rhythm of a lyric or phrase that loops in your mind—
not just repeating, but unfolding—
revealing pieces of life that are raw, vivid, and unshakable.
Like chasing after lights that never fade,
following them back to the moments that shaped us.
Searching for Stars leans into musical echolalia:
the way words and sounds return uninvited but welcome,
carrying weight we haven’t finished holding.
The way remembrance speaks when it doesn’t know any other language.
A mixtape made of memories,
a constellation of feelings humming beneath the surface,
lighting the way.
The sound of memory and music intertwining—
inviting us not only to remember,
but to truly feel.
Welcome to the edge of the echoes.
Star Shuffle: New Drops From The Cosmic Mixtape
About The Author:
Lauren Nixon-Matney writes like a mixtape. She believes in the power of good stories, great soundtracks, and the kind of memories that hit like a scene from your favorite movie.
She’s the creator of Searching for Stars, a musical memory project and emotional time capsule built on love, loss, and the bright flickers that shape a life.
Blending personal storytelling, musical soul, and the cinematic echoes of childhood, she invites readers to sit with beauty, grief, and the small things that endure—joyful, painful, unforgettable.
From the spaces between the stars—where grief hums like music, the past lives on in fragments, beauty refuses to fade, and the heart keeps looking up—her memories unfold, one story, one beat at a time.
