Come see the garden,” my new online friend said to me, years ago. We had never met, barely knew each…
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Why I write: “We still and always want waking”
I’ve been fascinated, over the last month or so, to read so many of my favorite bloggers’ answers to the…
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Laurie Colwin — my mentor in the kitchen & on the page
I once bought a black speckled canning pot, two boxes of Ball jars, and twelve pounds of dusky Italian plums…
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“Handling the Truth”–the perils and pleasures of memoir (and how to win this book!)
I don’t quite remember how Beth Kephart and I first met; it feels as if we’ve been friends forever. More…
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Inhabiting a moment
“Everything that is not written down disappears except for certain imperishable moments, people and scenes.” — James Salter, “The Art…
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Book giveaway, events, and online chat
A mother’s midlife memoir paired with a gardening book? What, you might well ask, could these two volumes possibly…
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