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On the Difficulty of Writing

Finally. The truth, as I know it, about writing. Junot Díaz, who wrote the 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, splays it all out, in O Magazine’s November 2009 issue.  You can read it here. Some writers might disagree.  Some writers may sit down every morning, to be met with […]

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How the Day Sounds

“How the Day Sounds” – Greg Laswell Oh who would have ever known this? Could be this easy I was a long, long way off Then just like that it was over Everything I knew of love I was a long, long way off And I think I like how the day sounds Like how […]

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Zen

Well, you’ll all be wondering what exactly went on at this mother’s retreat I went to on Saturday, and you’re in luck, because I shall tell you all about it.  Sidle up a little closer, friend, because I’m ready to dish all.  And every mistake I make in explaining it (because really, it’s unexplainable!) is […]

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A Song For You

Sea Wolf is one of my favorite bands.  In reality, this song is particularly sad, yet it offers a smidgen of hope.  The man in the song has been abused in childhood by both his father and brother… And yet. “It’s the winter windows that ends become beginnings.” Since my friend Karen Maezen Miller’s one-day […]

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Two Cookbooks

I’m loving these cookbooks right now and thought I’d share.  They’re not at all alike, yet they share a similar hunger for delicious food. The first is Hot Sour Salty Sweet, a huge coffee table-sized book with glorious pictures and tons of history following the people of Southeast Asia.  Quite fascinating and breathtaking, all in […]

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