CHUsday 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…
Read MoreHanging Out On the Beach For Fun and Profit
Last week’s Novelists Inc. conference was fabulous. I came home with so much information, but unfortunately no suntan to go with it. I was inside the hotel at workshops madly scribbling notes almost the entire time. When I wasn’t, I was investigating Sarasota with friends, which might well turn out to be our Florida home someday. …
Read MoreCHUsday with an Ethnic Twist
My hometown, Gulfport, Florida, has a wonderful Cuban restaurant, Habana Cafe. Last year when I attended the Novelist’s Inc. conference on St. Pete Beach, a group of us visited the restaurant for a delicious, reasonably priced dinner. I ordered the lechon asada, which is a fabulously roasted pork topped with grilled onions. I was hooked. I…
Read MoreSunday Poetry: Fingertips Required
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday blogs here. At a time when jobs, professions and class warfare are very much in the headlines all over the world, and Occupied DC is only fifteen minutes from my front door, Who Burns for the…
Read MoreWriters on the Beach
I’m at the Novelist’s Inc. conference on St. Pete Beach this week, with old friends and new. I attended last year and learned more in a day than I’ve learned in all the previous conferences I’d ever attended. So back I went. Ever wonder what writer’s talk about when we’re together? (And I don’t mean…
Read MoreCHUsday: What’s Your Favorite Food Blog?
I don’t know about you, but in addition to a LOT of cookbooks, I also have a LOT of links to cooking blogs and recipe sites. This month, in hopes that you do, too, if you make a new recipe from an online site, you can comment here or on any Cookbook Hoarders United blog from…
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