: About Me

Kate is a pop culture gadfly, a spiritual dilettante, a graduate student in Public History, a mama, and a home party sales chick. Somehow she still manages to spend way too much time on the Internet.

Much to Kate's personal shame, she knows much more about the lives of celebrities than she does about the 2008 Presidential hopefuls. She can't recite the preamble to the Constitution, but she knows the lyrics to the entire Ben Folds catalog. She can, however, identify most of the U.S. states and knows the location of many foreign countries.

Kate lives in west Texas with her husband and preschooler, an elderly dog, an obese cat, and too many hoodie sweaters.

My passion is ...

fleeting

I know too much about ...

Lindsay Lohan

My parents always told me ...

to finish my math

My childhood ambition ...

zoo keeper

Why I write ...

it's in my blood

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Reading "Dave Barry Slept Here" / Watching "Danny Deckchair" / Listening To The Magic Numbers

My first job ...

cutting out "filler" stories for my Dad's weekly newspaper

Entertainment > Music Genres, Trends & Scenes The legacy of folk music

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Can something that has always been and always will be have a "legacy"? To me, the word "legacy" means something left behind by something that is gone. I do not believe that folk music, in its purest sense, is gone or ever will be. As long as people sing, there will be folk music. For the moment, let's set aside discussions of who today is influenced by Pete Seeger and Kingston Trio; it's a fun discussion if you follow contemporary folk and alt-country (I do, for the record.) I think it's safe to say that most Americans really don't, and many, like my husband, actually bristle at the words ...

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