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The Kids’ Table
There was a little table in the corner when I was growing up. Melamine plates, plastic cups, sparkling cider poured like it was champagne. No china for the little ones, not yet. The china was something you had to grow up and earn. And we ran that table. My brother and I would build whole…
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Ten Minutes Before Dinner
Every family has an arrival order, and it never changes. At my mom’s, we are always first in the driveway. Then my sister. Then our uncle in the late afternoon. And then, every single year, someone rolls in about ten minutes before dinner, swearing the traffic held them up, on a day when nobody in…
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Thanksgiving Traditions
Here is something I have learned about traditions. Nobody ever writes them down. They just get handed on, a little more here, a little less there, from one pair of hands to the next, until the person who started it is gone and all you have is the way you have always done it. Thanksgiving…
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Make the Crystal Sing
When I was a little girl, my dad taught me a secret at the Thanksgiving table. We always ate on my great grandmother’s china, on the white linen, with the crystal goblets. And one year my dad called me over to the grown ups table, pulled a chair in right beside him like I was…
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All Together: A New Thanksgiving Album, and Why I Had to Make a Second One
Last year I made an album called My Thanksgiving, and I thought I had said everything I needed to say about this holiday. I was wrong. Because here is what happened. All year long, in the quiet spaces between releases, I kept coming back to my mother’s table. Not the idea of a Thanksgiving table,…
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Happy Halloween, and Thank You
It is here. Happy Halloween, everyone. Thank you for spending this whole month with me and with Midnight Masquerade. We counted down all thirty-one days together, one song at a time, from a sunny afternoon of pumpkin carving to a family on the sidewalk after midnight. That was the whole journey I wanted this album…
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Throw Your Own Midnight Masquerade
Halloween is tomorrow, so today let us plan your soundtrack. Here is how I would use the album to score a whole night with your family or your friends, start to finish. Pumpkin Carving Party – My Own Currated Spotify Playlist! Stream “Midnight Masquerade” all day! Start the afternoon with act one while you carve…
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Lines I Am Proud Of
With the album out in the world, I want to take a quiet minute and share a few lyrics I am proud of. Not the big singalong hooks, but the little turns that I think earn their keep, because the writing is where the fresh-music promise actually lives or dies. Growing up in the ’80s…
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Two Songs That Grew Too Big for the Party
Not every song I wrote for this album ended up on it, and I want to tell you about two of them, because they are coming your way in their own time, and the reason they got pulled says something about how much I care where a song lives. The first is Bone Man. It…
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