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Recent Posts
- Redecoration, Part One: Aunt Dot contemplates the living room of the future
- Maurice Zolotow & Roman Polanski (with a side of absinthe)
- creative discontent: lasting father-wit, & a writer/innkeeper's ex-files
- Estimated Final Date of Frost: time's winged chariot, with lilacs & the fish
- letting an invitation become personally seismic: how I began to grow up
- Part 2: love/ let sleeping cats tell the truth
- Part 1: love / dead cat
- buffalo girl: adventures in children's book writing & publishing/non-publishing, screwing up, & being inspired by one very fearless child
- The Arc of the Moral Universe: Bush, Barack, & the Bend Towards Justice
- "50 year old shoulder"
Books by the bed
Books I'm listening to in the car
Books in my (culinary) office
Monica Bhide: Modern Spice: Inspired Indian Flavors for the Contemporary Kitchen
Najmieh Batmanglij: New Food of Life: Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies (*****)
William Rubel: The Magic of Fire: Hearth Cooking: One Hundred Recipes for the Fireplace or Campfire (***)
Jessica Prentice: Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection (*****)
Joan Dye Gussow: This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader (****)
Joyce Goldstein: Complete Mediterranean The Beautiful Cookbook (***)
Books in my (writing/creativity/teaching) office
- Delmore Schwartz: I Am Cherry Alive," THE LITTLE GIRL SANG
Lewis Hyde: The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World (Vintage)
Steven Pressfield: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Ralph Keyes: The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear
- Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky: Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to His Family and Friends
Food-Related Blogs
Writing-related blogs & links
Charlotte, Aunt Dot & me
- An elderly mother, her even older sister, their middle-aged daughter/niece ... and a small sheep.
National Cornbread Festival
- The apogee of all experiences for the true cornbread lover is the National Cornbread Festival, held annually the last full weekend of April in South Pittsburg, Tennessee.
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Categories
- A.E. Houseman
- aging
- aging parents
- Ann-Margret
- appreciation
- arc of the moral universe
- Aretha Franklin
- Arkansas
- asparagus
- Books
- Brattleboro
- canning & preserving
- cats
- cauliflower
- change
- Charlotte Zolotow
- children's book writing
- children's books
- compassion towards self and others
- cooking
- cornbread
- Crescent Dragonwagon
- culinary writing
- David Koff
- David Schnarch
- death
- death of a pet
- driving at night
- e e cummings
- E. L. Doctorow
- eating locally
- eldercare
- environmentalism
- Eureka Springs
- fame
- farmer's markets
- Fearless Writing
- Film
- Food and Drink
- friendship
- gardening
- gentleness
- George Bush
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- getting things done
- gingerbread
- gradual transformation
- grief & grieving
- health
- Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama
- Hollywood
- home
- Houdini
- housekeeping
- insomnia
- John Wayne
- localvore
- love
- Marge Piercy
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Maurice Zolotow
- May Sarton
- Momaday
- Mother's Day
- mothers
- Name of the Year
- names
- narrative
- National Cornbread Festival
- natural world
- Ned Shank
- organization
- owls
- oyster mushrooms, puffballs
- peace
- photography
- poetry
- recipes
- Ricky Jay
- Roman Polanski
- Rumi
- self-understanding, personal growth
- sexuality
- spring
- Steve Zolotow
- Surgery
- T.S. Eliot
- Television
- Traca Savadago
- Travel
- Vermont
- Wislawa Syzmborska
- writer's memory
- writers
- writing
- writing workshops
- Yeats
