Sunday Poetry: With Starry Silences
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday blogs here. Searching for Thanksgiving poems to share with you, I discarded a number. Some wandered through territory I didn’t want to travel. Others made me wonder whether the poet was grateful for anything and if…
Read MoreReality Shows: The Art of Entertainment?
Get out your #2 pencils, class. Pop quiz today. What television network began in 1984, envisioning itself as a commercial alternative to PBS? What television network commissioned double Emmy winner Horatio Hornblower and produced outstanding classics such as as Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, and The Great Gatsby? What television network claims that last year,…
Read MoreCHUsday Tips to Take You Back to the Kitchen
This week while leafing through old magazines, I found a tip I can’t believe I’ve never tried. It’s so obvious and simple. Chop onions, peppers, celery, or carrots and freeze on a cookie sheet, then pop the frozen veggies into plastic bags. When an ingredient is needed for a recipe, break off a chunk. Well, of course. Celery regularly wilts…
Read MoreSunday Poetry: With Unseen Ropes
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday blogs here. Despite a four hour debacle last week, which ended in triumph when a CVS pharmacist squatted beside a chair in the storeroom and gave me a hard-won flu shot, I still came down with…
Read MoreThe Write Way: Back Story, Front Story, and Nothing In Between
Picture this: You’ve splurged on a hefty hardcover you know you’ll spend weeks reading. You’ve given the bookstore your hard-earned cash because you expect the author to keep his/her unspoken promise. Within these pages a story will unfold,one so riveting that by the time you finish, your life will be transformed–or at least during the…
Read MoreCHUsday and Soup Weather’s Here
Tina, who posted a comment on the CHU blog, Bread’s Baking in the Oven, is October’s CHU giveaway winner with a recipe she tried from The New American Plate: Recipes for a Healthy Weight and a Healthy Life. The recipe, Roasted Red Pepper and Corn Soup, was a hit at her house. Tina says “it’s…
Read MoreSunday Poetry: The Outdoors Seem Like a Room
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday blogs here. Last week Northern Virginia had snow on the ground. Before Halloween. Unheard of. Of course it was nothing like the 20 inches some places farther north received. I remember my first winter in NW Pennsylvania,…
Read MoreThe Write Way: All Those Things That Happen Before the Book Begins
Galen McGee, peakdefinition.com This week was a milestone in my career. I turned in One Mountain Away, which is the first in the Goddesses Anonymous series set in Asheville, North Carolina. Wherever you live, I’m sure you heard the cheers. One Mountain Away is scheduled to come out in August of 2012, and while I’ve…
Read MoreCHUsday and the One That Got Away
I hate wasting food. Which is why my husband and I smiled over burned salmon last week and pretended to smack our lips. Truth is, neither of us was willing to throw away a pound of wild caught salmon, even if the glaze, for which I’d held out so much hope, was now a layer…
Read MoreSunday Poetry: Not to be Tampered With
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday blogs here. I had to smile when The Printer’s Error by Aaron Fogel showed up in my mailbox from Poetry 180 this week. How can any novelist not love this one, particularly a novelist who just…
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