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April is National Poetry Month

I just realized this is National Poetry Month.

Favorite poets, anyone? My favorite is Mary Oliver. She captures the essence of nature and life so beautifully, so simply. I could stick one of her poems here (like anything from Why I Wake Early for example), but decided instead to share one of my [Continue reading]

In an attempt to be 'fair and balanced'...

…I thought I’d post this picture of the seitan I made and wrote about a couple of weeks ago.

I wanted to show that delicious, healthy food can look just as unappetizing as the artery-clogger I posted on Friday. This is my seitan, right before getting sliced and tossed into a yummy stir-fry. Sorta [Continue reading]

The Tao of Dog Poop -- plus a yummy cookie recipe (I know, they really should be separate posts)

I don’t have anything brilliant to say this morning (for a change) and so I thought I’d share one of my favorite recipes with you — even though it’s NOT what I’m eating right now. Right now I’m eating an apple/cranberry/whole wheat/oat scone fresh out of the oven. Yum. Maybe I’ll write [Continue reading]

Hot Stuff

Okay, I’m embarrassed because everyone else is writing all sorts of good stuff and I’m stuck in the middle of defining Becca’s character (K.M. Weiland‘s Character Interview is really helpful here!) and trying to write a short story. I have nothing to share. Except –

I pride myself in being able to throw a [Continue reading]

Vegan Cookies Invade My Cookie Jar Again

Back in December, I wrote about getting a new cookbook, Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar. I said I would let you know what I thought after trying out some of the recipes for Christmas. Today seems like the day, since some of my writing buddies are lusting after Dunkin Donuts AND [Continue reading]

The Broken Teaglass vs. Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar

Taking some time off for the holidays here…. I’ve been on a mystery bender and I thought I’d post some pithy comments about The Broken Teaglass, Emily Arsenault’s debut novel. And maybe something about Julia Spencer-Fleming and how I’m finally caught up on the Clare/Russ saga and am eagerly awaiting the next episode, due this [Continue reading]

Food for Thought – Thoughts for Food

And now for something completely different to get in the holiday spirit……

Everyone in my family is a food snob, but we’re all different kinds of food snobs. So a typical holiday family meal might include satisfying the vegan faction. And the vegetarian-except-when-there’s lobster faction. And the haute cuisine faction. And the macrobiotic faction. About the [Continue reading]