CONVERSATION AMONG THE RUINS

Kristi Wooten

Your job doesn't define you. Your music does.

Kate Bush's triumphant chart return, the Prince Channel on Sirius XM, and Tears for Fears' bucket-list tour "Stars are like diamonds, we...

Kristi Wooten

The New Era of Invisible Leadership

Humanoids, surviving the pandemic on Zoom, resolve after Buffalo and Uvalde, and a musical spring re-awakening "Better parted / I see...

Kristi Wooten

It's time for a change, and we need to talk

Buffalo, Uvalde, Unity in America and Lightning Crashes "I can feel it coming back again / Like a rolling thunder chasing the wind /...

Kristi Wooten

Specs and the City

Holy spaces on planes, SJP on Broadway, Rock Hall inductees, Jean-Michel Basquiat, The Jeffersons, Every Mother Counts, and a playlist...

Kristi Wooten

The Algorithms Are Trolling Us

Naomi Judd and mental health, Trevor Noah, Cow Burps, Elbow, and Billie Eilish's Mushroom Nike drop. "The first step is to realize that...

Kristi Wooten

As It Was: Childhood Remixed

Book banning, Bjork, Beatles, E.T., and the Drew Barrymore TikTok that sent me into a spiral. "In this world, it's just us / You know...

Kristi Wooten

Welcome to Conversation Among the Ruins

"What ceremony of words can patch the havoc?" - Sylvia Plath What do poet Sylvia Plath, painter Giorgio de Chirico, and jazz pianist Joey...