August 1, 2005
Brooklyn, NY

Have been having quite the NYC adventure for the past few days... Getting here there was a night or two from the annals of "I can't believe this is my life: Road stories from almost-hell" to be elaborated on later in the road novel I will surely write one day- Jack Kerouac, watch out buddy. But now I'm here and all is glorious and vibrant and fascinating and did I mention HOT? And today despite the heat I walked and walked and walked for what must have been a million blocks all the way from Broadway-Lafayette to Times Square and beyond. Then I did a big runabout Central Park before deliciously dining in the Central Park Boathouse on Pinot Grigio and Salmon Carpaccio... ohhh baby. My legs hurt, but it was so worth it! Spent last night crashing on the fine couch of my friend the incredible songmistress Elisa Korenne. Hittin' the 1-95 corridor of traffic jammage tomorrow en route back to Virginny for a wee bit more of a spell. Writing and writing and writing.... xxx K

 
In Central Park, NYC... more NY photos

July 19, 2005
London, Ontario

There is nothing so sweet in the whole wide world as your very own bed and your very own dog and your very own clean laundry! Home for 48 hours and planning on enjoying every last delicious second of it. Had lots of fun this morning on Canada AM, CTV's national morning show... got to kick it up righteously with a bunch of other fabulous guitar pickers in the name of the upcoming Canadian Guitar Festival this weekend. Hope to see y'all there...

On the set of Canada AM... click image to enlarge

July 17, 2005
Cranberry, PA

At Motel 6... encore. Soooo sleepy again, but at least no odeur de wet doggy this time. Adventures have been seriously good- and highly adventurous. Left the holler this morning en route back to my home and native land. Yayyy Canada. Spent the last week at Paul Reisler and Julie Portman's Songcamp intensive in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I had the most incredible time, learned absolutely tons and met the most amazing people. Wrote some damn fine songs too... I highly recommend this experience for songwriters of all levels. It was so good for me! Next stop: Torontonia for a little Canada AM morning television... and I ask- why can't morning television be on in the afternoon? ... Zz z z z z z z z z z z z 

At the Blue Ridge School for boys... (don't ask)

July 4, 2005
Gid 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 like true rednecks and set 'em off ourselves in the back forty... Mmmm pretty sparkles. !(*)!

A hazy dazy 4 o' July in the holler... more photos

In Jeffersonton, VA... more Virginia self-portraits here!

June 26, 2005
Cranberry, 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 fine and talented ladies. On the other side of the club the Easy Star All-Stars were playing and kickin' it up big time! I never even thought I liked Reggae but these guys certainly changed my mind. For their second set they played the entirety of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" à la exceptional reggae. It didn't even remotely suck. I loved it. Other highlights of the weekend were Neiman Marcus hat shopping and the Taste of Chicago- the city's annual outdoor food festival. I ate some superfine crab cakes and seafood gumbo... yum. And drank some truly heinous Budweiser-made beer -Don't try that at home. Will be heading off Virginia-bound in the morning... yayyy remote mountain nothingness and no traffic! Gotta make it cross the whole blasted Ohio turnpike first tho. But I know there will be Cracker Barrel hash brown casserole somewhere on the way and that will make it all eternally worthwhile....

At the Crown Fountain in Millennium Park, Chicago... more photos

 
101 Degrees in the traffic jam... more photos 

June 16, 2005
London, 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. I've just posted a whole slough of Europe photos from my ongoing self-portrait series... check them out here! I'm around Ontario for the next week and a bit and then off to Chicago for some Women with Guitars action. Then down the the Virginia holler... Gonna lock myself in a cabin in the middle of the beautiful nowheres for a while and work hard on finishing some new-album writing. Yeehaw! New album! It's getting closer to existing every single day... I'll keep you updated... xoxo K

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