It is crazy that it is March 24th. Crazy crazy crazy…But it’s been a good year so far. So good that I have been horrible about writing my blog, which is, well, NOT good!

So! Here we go…I have been somewhat hunkered down in the Boston area these days and it’s been nice. Working on some new songs and figuring out some next steps. Tonight, for instance, I am going to be drinking a bottle of wine over the phone with a friend and catching up…it’s the little things.

Last weekend I was out in Kansas City for my niece’s baptism and it was pretty cute seeing her in her little dress, etc. I am in love with this child. She is my first niece and she is pretty much the cutest thing ever….so that was fun. Exhausting but fun. And we went from 65 degrees on Friday sitting outside for lunch to 9 inches of snow the next day. It was bizarre but I think snow is pretty so I wasn’t complaining too much. The big deal was that everyone pretty much brought “springy” clothes and shoes for the baptism when winter boots ended up being more appropriate. We managed.

Well! I am just going to go ahead and say that I am typing this outside in 75 degree weather with the breeze blowing ever so slightly taking the edge off of the heat and sun exposure that my so very white pale skin has been deprived of for so very long. I am in Florida with my family and it is fantastico. I can’t remember the last time I was so excited to walk out of the airport into the tropical air. Don’t get me wrong, I might prefer a tropical island with umbrella drinks being handed to me left and right, but this will do just fine. And as I said, I am with my awesome family.

It is so nice to take a chill pill from the frigid Northeast and kick back and eat my mom’s brownies…you know the ones with butter, graham cracker, chocolate chips (of course), coconut, sweetened condensed milk, and walnuts to boot? I mean seriously. They are good for breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner, snack, late night snack, insomnia snack…whenever. In fact, I woke up this morning, poured my coffee, and said to myself, “Oh, I think I will” as I grabbed one off the cookie tray thingy. I thought nobody heard me but my sister-in-law did and laughed at me. Alas, no guilt just bliss.

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Hi there my friends!

I hope this note finds you doing great and enjoying life! After a terrific summer of travel, rest, and music, I am settling into my new life in Brooklyn. It is a nice change of pace and if I can get over the subway barreling through under my apt every 3 minutes, I think it will be just about perfect!

This summer found me for a couple of weeks in Montana and a lot of weeks up in my beloved New Hampshire. I am actually here right now for a wedding this weekend. Not singing, just enjoying. And I found out the wedding photographer, Emilie Sommer, is the same Emilie who took some of my first music publicity shots. It's going to be great to reconnect with her tonight.

It is definitely fall up here and it is my favorite time of the year. Crisp and cold. Sweater weather. I feel the most alive in the fall for sure. I have been working on a few more tunes and learning some cool new covers and am looking forward some hard musical work in the next few months! I have been asked back in Oct. to the House of Blues Foundation Room in Boston which is very cool so I am going to be working on putting together some musicians for this show and rocking the house (literally)!

Hi friends-

Hope all is well. It’s been an eventful few weeks. My brother and his wife just had their first baby and I am a new aunt. I can’t believe how amazing it feels. I was out in Kansas City with them for almost a week and it was so incredible holding this tiny little angel. I love her so much!!! I will attach a picture after this blog. It’s amazing how innocent she is and how she is just taking it all in with wonder and amazement. Ah, I could on:) Babies are pretty cute.

On a sadder note, it is amazing how deeply affected I have been about the Air France flight that went down last week. I guess we all need constant reminders of how fragile life is, but wow. I guess it is because it could have been any one of us…but also that they don’t know what happened. I just hope and pray nobody suffered. I hope they did not really even know what hit them. I just hope all of families are hanging in there and finding some iota of comfort from each other. Go give someone you a hug.