happy birthday to me: a musical garden party
RITES OF PASSAGE can be tricky, and when things get tricky: Turn up the music! In June 2014, I turned [read more…]
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book giveaway: the soaring work of brad kessler
IAM AFRAID OF FLYING, BUT RIGHT AT HOME WITH BIRDS. So Brad Kessler’s 2006 novel “Birds in Fall,” a story [read more…]
musical inspiration: on staying 'too long at the fair'
THOUGH A TAD EMBARRASSING TO SAY SO, song lyrics, like other poetry, get pasted up on the fridge or bulletin [read more…]
a q-and-a about the soundtrack of my life
INTERNET MIRACLES—those serendipitous connections forged as if out of nowhere—are especially sweet for me these days, living as I do [read more…]
country living: are you ready?
SNOW DAYS—MUFFLED, TUCKED-IN, NO-CAN-DO DAYS—drove me stir-crazy when I shifted to fulltime residence in Nowheresville three years ago. I wasn’t [read more…]
