Author Gwen McLaughlin

Did you ever notice that there's something different about the ten-block? That group of townhouses overlooking the baseball field with the shiny, black roof? In January 2000, a project over a year and a half in the making came into being and 2800 square feet worth of solar panels were installed on the roofs of four out of the eight houses on that block.

My first car was a red convertible with beige interior and the best metal wheels money could buy. It was small enough to move nimbly, to handle sharp curves with ease and to show every other kid on the playground who ruled recess racing. Ford,Volkswagon, none of these wannabes could match my first car - Matchbox.

Ani DiFranco's So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter, the long awaited follow up to the best-selling Living In Clip, is a live, double CD set including three previously unrecorded songs and twenty more from every phase of a career spanning almost two decades, over fourteen studio recordings, and four Grammy nominations.