Listen to this gal y’all. She cuts across the categories. This is Want to Be On Your Mind Here is Ken Tucker’s take on her album. Here’s a Rolling Stone Session with a mini-interview and some of her song You … Continue reading →

“Grace is the celebration of life, relentlessly hounding all the non-celebrants in the world. It is a floating, cosmic bash shouting its way through the streets of the universe, flinging the sweetness of its cassations to every window, pounding at … Continue reading →

Yes. This is how you get back at the pitcher who nearly took your head off. Your browser does not support iframes. Pure Yadier. I’d have loved to have been at Busch for that! Happy Saturday, y’all!

Some of y’all may already know about Sister Rosetta Tharpe. I didn’t, until I kind of stumbled across her a few weeks ago. Later, I was telling some of our friends about her when one of the guys there said … Continue reading →

Cornbread. I’ve made a skillet or two (thousand?) of those in my life. But I had never found the one. That might have changed, now, with this recipe. It’s from Pioneer Woman. The interesting thing is that it uses the … Continue reading →

This song has been covered by lots of impressive folks — but I think that I like this version the best. It is by The Duhks. Such a pretty song. Such a sad song. It has been stuck in my … Continue reading →

Usually, I prefer a plain, full fat, Greek yogurt. It’s just so versatile, you know. Lately, we’ve been eating it with a breakfast apple crisp that I’ve been making with all of the apples we’ve recently been given. Also, we … Continue reading →

I don’t know why I like this song, y’all, because it definitely doesn’t fit into my usual song liking parameters. Maybe it is because the song is bluesy, and I hear a lot more of that down here in Mississippi. … Continue reading →

And, no, I do not mean this wood explosionesque kitchen that Count Dooku and Dino-Guido are hanging out in. Nope. That would be the kitchen in my rental. The kitchen that I’m talking about is this one. It is all … Continue reading →

“But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on out into the New Jerusalem: the ability to take our freedom seriously and act on it, to live … Continue reading →