Living the dream. Five years ago I was a street musician in Seattle playing my cello in the freezing drizzle to get enough money to fly back to Kentucky to see my fiancé, and that’s what an enthusiastic man, in baggy grey sweatpants, filming a documentary on his iphone about street musicians, wanted me to…

Kudzu was supposedly introduced to the south to use as erosion control, a use for which it is certainly well suited. Unfortunately the prolific, highly invasive vine spread and is nearly impossible to control. Now it covers mountainsides, climbing up and smothering whole forests. As much as we would like to get rid of it…