#personal-memories

#personal-memories

My mom was Kate McGarrigle, who formed folk duo Kate and Anna McGarrigle with my aunt. My dad is the folk singer Loudon Wainwright III. They were only married for five years, but wrote songs about each other and about my older brother Rufus and I. My dad wrote Five Years Old about missing my fifth birthday. That changed my life. Sometimes it's easier to apologise in music than in person.

The song I do at karaoke is Tale As Old As Time from the Beauty and the Beast soundtrack, even though it's a duet.

The starchy smell of newsprint filled the kitchen at my grandparents' house when we sat down to dinner, a tradition that intertwined food, family, and memories.