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Adios, Mustang

13, Feb 2021

I had the weird experience yesterday of watching my Mustang drive away and knowing it wasn’t coming back. This is the first time I have upgraded my car situation out of carefully planned options and free will as opposed to utter duress and freaking out. (Hello, new-to-me 2010 Prius…you are swell and a space car). […]

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Cookies in Sugar Land

16, May 2018

Makes sense that there’d be cookies at a house concert in Sugar Land, right? Thanks to Donna and her awesome hostessing at none other than Sugar Land House Concerts…these were the coolest cookies I have ever seen. She asked The Bearded Baker (of Cypress, TX) to make some cookies based on our album art. Check […]

In: fun|gigs

July & the Heat

20, Jul 2017

Busy summer over here! It’s 102 today…we’ve all just accepted it as Central Texas residents, but it doesn’t mean I don’t yearn for Canada EVERY SINGLE DAY. I chose Canada because it seems far enough away not to get a heatwave but what do I know. Anyway, in the meantime, a photo-log (PHLOG!): I played […]

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2016 Music Recap: Live

19, Dec 2016

Here’s the deal with me, and I know I’ve been over this several times and in several forms. In my formative teenage years I became a folkie. I appreciate a great songwriter. I’ve seen and see quite a few of them, and I count many of them as my friends. There’s a vibrant and wonderful […]

In: fun|inspiration|popmusic

Vlog No. 21: Drones with Katie

31, May 2016

Katie flies a drone and I try to film it. Mostly we just laugh a lot. Also I’m trying to be more organized…haha.

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Ellie Goulding Is a Boss

21, Apr 2016

Whew. I’ve been all up in the video making lately that the text post quality on this blog has really gone down. Part of me regrets that, part of me is proud of posting videos so regularly so…eh. But TEXT! Let’s WRITE! So…I spent the week in New Mexico for my cousin’s wedding. It was […]

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I Heart NYC

1, Nov 2015

A certain amount of years ago (ok, like 10) when I was in college, I hung out with a group of 4 friends and we called ourselves The Quadrangle. We did most everything together, enough so that we had to coin a term for our clique. We all keep in touch even though we’re all […]

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Mary Chapin Carpenter

15, Apr 2015

We all know where I stand on the topic of Mary Chapin Carpenter. She’s only one of the greatest American songwriters ever. I am fortunate sometimes when the Greatest comes to my neighborhood, and I get to see a show! My friend Heidi rolled into town from California – we’ve seen about 45 million MCC […]

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Traveling Red River Songwriters

26, Dec 2013

I feel the need to blog more before it is 2014. Uh… I had the joy of spending the week before Christmas with the Traveling Red River Songwriters’ Tour…with the amazing Drew Kennedy, Walt Wilkins, Kelley Mickwee, Brandy Zdan, Josh Grider, and SusanG. We all gather for the Red River Songwriters’ Festival in January in […]