100% birthday-worthy
In mid-September, I got out my digital camera for the first time in a geologic age. I'd tried a new-to-me recipe, and it turned out so well that I wanted immediately to rush to Ye Olde Ancient Blog and write it up. So I took the pictures. And then I ...
Orangette
Monday, November 6, 2017
June 30
A couple of weeks ago, while researching rhubarb crumble recipes for the Crisps and Crumbles episode of Spilled Milk (still going strong, 52 weeks a year! and still featuring impromptu hair-metal duets!), I pulled down an old copy of Canal House Cook...
Orangette
Saturday, July 1, 2017
April 30
I got Junie into bed on time tonight, the first night in a week, and to celebrate, I'm sitting at the table, listening to the birds outside, thrilling at the fact that it's 8:24 pm and I haven't yet flipped on a single light switch. And because it fe...
Orangette
Monday, May 1, 2017
March 8
There was a chair in the front window of my teenage bedroom, but I almost never sat there. It faced into the room, because all there was to see outside was the house across the street, with its dirty-blond buzz-cut of a yard and a security system sig...
Orangette
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
December 7
Today it's been 14 years since my dad died, and in most ways, it seems like longer than that. I've done a lot of living - maybe too much? - in those 14 years. But I can still hear his voice in my head, and I can still feel the hug he gave me in our d...
Orangette
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
November 30
I've always been drawn to the things we're not supposed to talk about. I remember the night when, toward the end of writing A Homemade Life, I got into bed, switched off the light, and suddenly was hit with a very bad idea, an almost electric impulse...
Orangette
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
October 3
I started my Monday by listening to Blood Orange until my ears fell off, which was nice. Then my friend Jenny told me to watch this (old-news) video (that I somehow had never seen before), and with that, my week is off and running. Hi to you. Now, bu...
Orangette
Monday, October 3, 2016
It doesn't look like much
Helloooooooooooooooo. I didn't mean to be gone for so long. I know what some of you were thinking, and I am delighted to report that I did not give up on blogging. I also did not die. But it's been a long, hard, dizzying summer, I will say that, with...
Orangette
Friday, September 23, 2016
Out here, up here
Today I come to you from Sitka, Alaska, where I've been since last Saturday, leading a writing workshop on memoir and place. I'm among the faculty for the first-ever Sitka Arts and Science Festival, a week of multi-disciplinary cross-pollination and ...
Orangette
Friday, July 22, 2016
June 28
I am not, in general, someone who keeps a running catalog of her favorites: favorite movie, favorite book, favorite song, favorite color, favorite number, and so on. A couple of decades ago, if pressed, I might have offered The Shawshank Redemption a...
Orangette
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
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