It has been so good to be home.  It took a few days for me to settle in and for it to feel real, but I’m now in the full swing of
domesticity.  We’ve been re-siding the garage and, yesterday, I even baked gingersnap cookies - Grandma Nordstrom’s recipe. I like em extra snappy, then you put them in the freezer (that’s where she’d store them, and where I’d sneak them from when I was little).

Last night I got to open for Exene Cervenka, from X.  Jon Brion and I learned a few old country songs to do, and Benmont came in on the last number.  That’s pretty good, but wait! There’s more!  My husband, Todd and I had our first on stage duet last night as well! A Dolly and Porter song called Tomorrow is Forever.  It was really fun. We’re gonna have to do more of that.

Tomorrow I’m going up to Ojai to record a couple more songs for that Cy Coleman project that came out earlier this fall. These would just be extra tracks, one is an other beautiful song of Cy’s called See Saw, and the other is a Jimmy Rogers tune I first heard Laurie Lewis do a long time ago called, I Miss the Mississippi and You. Its a lovely, lovely melody.

On Sunday I journey back east for a five show run of Co-Bill shows with the String Dusters. We’ll be starting in PA, then hitting VA, NC and MD.

I’m really excited to be touring with a bluegrass band again.  It’s gonna be a lot of fun.