The writing life is mostly comprised of behind-the-scenes, butt-in-the-chair, angst-ridden periods of time in which you are completely certain you’ve made a horrible mistake. You aren’t truly a writer. No one will ever read your work. It will never be published, and if it is, it will only be read …
2016, with its mirthless misery taught me with no uncertainty that nothing about this life is reliable. Entire chunks of a family …
Every journey begins with putting on your shoes. Or filling out an application for a scholarship to one of the best writing …
Snowbells on early. Christmas cactus bloomed late. We’re arriving at spring before we got to winter, but considering the winters …
On my mind tonight is my dear friend Ed McClanahan, much-beloved Kentucky author of such well-regarded books as The Natural Man and O The …
True to my promise to myself, in September, when I dove into the autumn’s writing work full on, I also started …
Monday, Aug. 31 was National Trail Mix Day. I don’t know why. It just was. I feel I should have something poetic …
The words “blue moon” have a certain musicality to them. Poetic thanks to the assonant sounds making up their middles. We all …
Phil and I recently acquired a modern television set. We held off because neither of us is in the habit of replacing things until they’ve …
The magical second time around. Good for lovers and careers, but not so good for bank robbers. More bank robbers get away with …
I should be a little giddy about a new book coming out this Saturday, but mostly I’m just nervous. You can …
If you’ve read Blue Moon Vegetarian, you know that I tried hard early in my and Phil’s relationship to learn to …
It was ejected from my computer the day of its original deadline, sidelined while the photographer waited out the last days of a difficult pregnancy, lost …
Deep in the caverns of my computer is a file quietly labeled “Blue Moon Vegan 2.” Coming from someone who had no intentions of …
Yes, it is Saturday afternoon, and I am writing a blog post. I’m like Walter Mitty, pretending to be actually a new-age …
I think I go through it every year at this time. I don’t even know what to call it: shutting down, transitioning, …
The last few days have been a bit overwhelming, trying to get ready for the new semester and finishing the final round …
I’ve spent the past two weeks with my aging parents, helping them navigate the here and now while trying to survive myself in …
The moment every writer dreads: turning on the computer to your most current project, only to find it missing, gone, vanished into the …
Well. I certainly had no idea that writing a cookbook would take so much time and effort. But it has, it does, …
What I’m learning is that no matter how many times you make a recipe successfully, it can—and will—still fail. I’ve been carting …
Love this gorgeous graphic from http://mindvalleyacademy.com. Haven’t read Thrive, but certainly this is a nice reminder of how much a part balance plays …
Yesterday, I did indeed make gluten-free tortillas. I’ve come a long way since I got out of bed in the near-dawn at …
Oh my goodness. Don’t EVER let anyone tell you that photographing food is easy. Here is the line-up for the last 48 …
