“How the Day Sounds” – Greg Laswell Oh who would have ever known this? Could be this easy I was a long, long way off Then just like that it was over Everything I knew of love I was a long, long way off And I think I like how the day sounds Like how […]
A Song For You
Sea Wolf is one of my favorite bands. In reality, this song is particularly sad, yet it offers a smidgen of hope. The man in the song has been abused in childhood by both his father and brother… And yet. “It’s the winter windows that ends become beginnings.” Since my friend Karen Maezen Miller’s one-day […]
Two Cookbooks
I’m loving these cookbooks right now and thought I’d share. They’re not at all alike, yet they share a similar hunger for delicious food. The first is Hot Sour Salty Sweet, a huge coffee table-sized book with glorious pictures and tons of history following the people of Southeast Asia. Quite fascinating and breathtaking, all in […]
Have You Ever?
Tonight is her second of two concerts in St. Paul. I’m so looking forward to it. I don’t want to leave you out, if you’re not going…or if you’ve never heard of her. So, here’s her song “Have You Ever.” I could listen to her all day. Today, my dear reader, may you know that […]
Cicadas
I’ll miss the cicadas when they go. They’ve kept us company all summer. To me, they stand for all the good things of warm weather: to have the doors flung open every morning, to hear the wind through the aspens, and to listen to strains we don’t hear during the winter months. Plus, cicadas are […]