Festing At Home

With Jazz Fest canceled this year, I’m joining the rest of New Orleans (and outta town Jazz Fest fans) with WWOZ’s JazzFesting at Home. I’ve got the radio going, made a batch of Rosemint iced tea, and am planning/hoping to make some Jama Jama and plantains like the ones from Bennachin. Maybe even to find…Continue reading Festing At Home

Yoga for writers and other creators

Hey all you NaNoWriMo scribes, and everyone else who’s creating with your bare hands! If you’re feeling tight, sore, or tense from hunching over your words or images, here’s a yoga video I found really helpful from Yoga with Adriene. She labels it for musicians, but I think it works for anyone making beautiful things (special…Continue reading Yoga for writers and other creators

Book review: Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

Carrie Brownstein is a personal hero of mine. She is just…so cool. At least, she seems like it, from a distance. How could the guitarist/vocalist of Sleater-Kinney and Wild Flag and the writer/actress from Portlandia not be cool? In that self-deprecating, sense-of-humor as well as sense-of-style way the truly cool have. I mean, what a…Continue reading Book review: Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl