Excavating Land, One Ancestor at a Time: A Conversation with Susan A. Brewer
The people keeping the records tend to have authority, and they tend to have an agenda, so they’re going to portray things in a way that fits their agenda.
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Eiren Caffall is a musician and writer living in Chicago. She writes songs, fiction, and essays about personal loss, global climate change, and the wisdom that comes whether we like it or not. She makes music under her own name, and has produced four albums. Her latest release is titled "Slipping the Holdfast." Her writing has appeared on The Manifest Station, Tikkun Daily, The Civil Twilight Project, The Time After, and at her website at eirencaffall.com. She is currently at work on her fifth album and first novel. She lives with her son Dexter, and they spend most of their time raising kittens and collecting fossils.
My Life with Annie Lennox: Nostalgia
I don’t use the term “lifelong hero” frivolously. There are a lot of people I respect and wish to emulate; Annie Lennox, however, is the only “lifelong hero” I’ll ever have. I need her.
My Life with Annie Lennox: A Christmas Cornucopia
Perhaps part of what prompted me to get clean and sober was the fact I kept making myself uncomfortable.
My Life with Annie Lennox: Honestly
Oh, Annie, I thought, opening a can of beer. We’re going to be okay. Aren’t we?
My Life with Annie Lennox: Don’t Let it Bring You Down
Whereas I once was “Abby, the girl who harbored a ridiculous but harmless amount of love for that weird ’80s singer, Annie Lennox,” I was now suddenly “Abby, the girl most parents might want their teenage children to avoid.”
My Life with Annie Lennox: Who’s That Girl?
Annie Lennox dressed as a man! Surely she’d bound her breasts for that video, which meant I was not, in fact, the only weirdo in the world who did it.
My Life with Annie Lennox: Sweet Dreams
One minute I was an awkward but content little teenager listening to Diva on the school bus ride home, the next minute I was dabbling in pyromania and setting strands of my own hair on fire.
Sound Takes: Heaven
I had enjoyed the song "Black Rainbow" from their upcoming LP, Heaven, so much that I’d actually thought, “Hey, this would be a great song to have a migraine to.”