Joni Mitchell | Joni Mitchell
Dec.29.2012
Joni Mitchell's album Turbulent Indigo fills the kitchen and into the far reaches of the house but nobody complains. They know the chef needs her fix, her little bit of inspiration, her escape. And I do escape into Vegetarian Lasagne and you might laugh because it is hardly an escape to most people...
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Dec.16.2012
The River sums it up for me. I wish I had a river I could skate away on. It happens every year. There are holiday parties I love to go to and others that are painful. I have a friend who is brilliant with small talk so I go to parties with her so I don't have to...
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Jun.09.2012
Joni Mitchell, by Mark Bego
image via greenobles.com
Biographies about living persons, particularly celebrities, are problematic, well, because of the obvious – that life isn’t yet complete. It’s unclear that Bego had Mitchell’s approval to write this book, and, as I suspect here,...
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Oct.03.2010
A very inspiring and interesting look at a familiar voice (to those of us born before 1965) revered by her musician peers as a rare poet is available. I watched "Heart and Mind: The Life and Times of Joni Mitchell" (http://www.cbc.ca/lifeandtimes/mitchell.html) that I rented on...
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May.22.2010
Excuse me for blogging past the deadline of the favorite song contest. The songwriter's husband died on Wednesday.
In the early 70's thirteen of us bought 160 acres in Canada and built a cabin to house any of us who had to flee the Vietnam draft. The amazing days spent building the cabin inspired...
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Dec.01.2009
One of the many things I’m thankful for this holiday season is not having to come up with some stupid Christmas story. Being a religion writer for a daily newspaper made me dread the approaching holidays. What are we going to say about Hanukkah this time around? Do we really have to take Kwanza...
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Dec.08.2008
I have a black and white photograph of my mother and I taken when I must have been about five years old. I stuck it onto my desk with a thumb tack. It is a black and white photograph and curling at the edges (I should frame it to preserve it). There is something spontaneous in the flavour of the...
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Jun.23.2008
The man who said those seven words you can’t say on television is dead today. George Carlin, one of the people who changed how we saw comedy died yesterday. When I heard about it this morning I felt sad. Mostly because he was so funny, and he did another routine I loved. I think it was on the first...
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