New music video and remixes of Alone in This
It’s warm, it’s golden, it’s got a star-studded pretend band.
Christa
Happy New Year and I love you
I wrote a not-that-happy-happy-new-year song.
10 great books about loss
I’m writing a book about loss. And as I write and research, I’ve been reading many other books about grief and also memoir in general.
I wrote a poem from your text
I received a lost minute invitation
An invitation to the minute that slipped between the cushions
That was right where I’d left it
My Musical Loves, The M Word, and Paper Indians on UnReserved
From the first ever song I remember being inspired by, to loss (as ever), to my new band name with Rosanna Deerchild.
Wallflower, Late Bloomer, Two Years Later
This piece got some unexpected attention online yesterday, and while it was the basis of that story I did on DNTO in 2015, I never really shared the written version two years ago when it won third place in Room’s nonfiction contest.
Christa Couture on CBC’s The Candy Show: aka another CBC dream comes true
I love the CBC. I say it all the time, I know. And I LOVE my CBC broadcasters. The chance to meet Candy Palmater was a delight.
New Scars and Old Ideas
I have a new scar. It was twice-made three weeks ago today.
My Love for Dead Ladies
I’ve been telling everyone to read this book, including CBC’s The Next Chapter.
A Line for Every City of April’s Tour
Once a tour is complete, there can be such a blurring of faces, backdrops, and events. There are also so many vivid and brilliant moments; some of them are still reverberating, shining, giggling, swaying, sighing in my thoughts and bones.