Sure, lots of people are in bands and their songs get played on the radio. It's not a big deal. It happens all the time. However, when I heard my band -- now defunct for five years -- on the radio, I almost flew off the back of my treadmill.

I'm not exactly sure how the song, called "Tell Me Everything," ended up on 88Nine. Most likely, it's because it was included on the first OnMilwaukee.com local music CD sampler, called "OMCD_1.0." However, we also cut a four-song EP that could be still floating around.

In any case, it was a trip to hear it, randomly and unexpectedly, on the radio. (And thanks to the DJ who played it.)

The band, called The Meddler and eventually just Meddler, was a project started by me and my husband Jamie. I wrote the lyrics and he wrote the music for about 20 songs. Later, we formed the band featuring Jamie as singer and guitarist, New Harmony Indiana's Matt Krajewski on bass, Mike Koch (Luminol, Dorian Gray, Eric Blowtorch and the Innflammables) on drums and guitarist Mike Tschurwald.

Over the course of a couple of years, we played a bunch of gigs, but then people started having babies and the group fell apart. Happens.

Seasoned musicians might take this stuff with a grain of salt, but for me, hearing a song that I wrote on the radio was pretty awesome. Although saying that, I feel a little like Steve Martin's character in "The Jerk," who got excited to discover his name was in the phone book.