July 4, 2005Gid Brown Hollow, VA All is well in the little cabin in the holler. A hot and lazy Fouth of July with the buzzing bees and the blowing breezes and the gurgling swamp monsters in the nearby pond. No communal fireworks display tonight in this neck ‘o the nowhere woods! So we had to go buy our own…   see more…

June 26, 2005Cranberry, PA Tooo sleepy to write…. Motel 6 smells like wet doggies. Forgot how much I love television… xo nighty-night

June 25, 2005 Chicago, IL I’ve been having such an amazing weekend in Chicago. This city is happening! Besides the over-the-top torturous traffic congestion (which in the 101 degree armpit-of-the-universe heat is reasonably unbearable) I’ve been having such fun exploring the city. Had a fabulous “Women With Guitars” show at the Abbey Pub on Friday night and met some truly…   see more…

June 16, 2005London, ON Home sweet home… So glad to be here for some resting and eating and cleaning before I yet again hit the road. And thank the universe, our recent painfully stifling Southwestern Ontario heat wave has finally broken! My brain is once again officially functioning and that is very helpful to the cause of getting work done….   see more…

May 20, 2005Paris Adieu Paris. I have had the very best adventure ever. Spent my last night here enjoying the sweet sounds of Lotus (you gotta say it with a French accent…”Lotou!”) at my favourite bar I found in all of Paris- Le Connétable. The first night I found this place I was wandering about the Marais after going to…   see more…

May 17, 2005Paris Tonight- oh!!!!! I got to go see Jean-Paul Poletti & La Choeur de Sartène sing their nouveau-Gregorian majestic chanty resplendentness in the unparalleled glory of Ste-Chapelle cathedral. I wept in awe. I LOVE Paris. With the moon and Ste-Chapelle cathedral… more photos

May 14, 2005Paris I am the happiest girl in the world- well, now that I’m here. My supposed high-speed 4 hour train ride from Amsterdam to Paris ended up taking 8 hours due to a railway strike in Belgium. They held our train for 2 hours in Antwerp and then we were additionally late cause they couldn’t find the conductor!…   see more…

May 10, 2005Amsterdam  Happy Birthday to me. After a serious overnight flight of no sleep whatsoever and a subsequent day of zombie-like wandering in a delicious daze I am celebrating my birthday in true fine style. So incredibly happy to be here. It’s like a dream. A dream with really good clothes shopping and super-fine beer and lots of bicycles….   see more…

April 29, 2005Toronto, ON Alas, I made it all the way across the country in time to see Patty Griffin play tonight in Toronto. Sweet! It was a long country man… let me tell ya. So glad to be back in the arms of the homeland. Here for a week of unpacking, cleaning and re-packing… Then it’s off to gaie…   see more…

April 25, 2005Sault Ste Marie, ON It’s the last night of sleazy motels for me on this trip, baby. My motel blanket even says “Motel” printed in black ink all across it. Gotta love that. Oh, Ontario-you are so long and take FOREVER to drive through. This was day 2 of the Ontario-haul, all cold and drippy with threats of…   see more…