Been a while since I hauled out the Kashtin albums.  Can’t for the life of me recall how I first heard of them.  Wouldn’t be surprised if it was on…View post

According to the three-year-old: “When I sing my heart feels colorful.”

Planted a patch of oats where the pigs were last year.  Got some amazing oats…nearly shoulder high and deep green.  Unfortunately they’re infested with pigweed (lamb’s quarters?) that is equally…View post

A while back I talked about pigs with Yael Grauer of the food magazine Spezzatino.  The entire interview is available here as a downloadable .pdf.  Yael asked some good questions…View post

I met Frankie Staton years ago while writing a piece on black artists in country music.  Now she’s auditioning for an Oprah project at this link.  I like Frankie’s idea…View post