Summertime, and the eating is easy: all I have to do is go to the garden and harvest what’s ripe. Sunday evening, we enjoyed a curry extravaganza: Cauliflower and Tomato Curry, Curried Beet Greens, Peach Chutney and Cucumber Raita. Even the cilantro, parsley, mint, jalapeno and onions were homegrown. Monday, it was a yellow squash […]
Living in Place
Baby Brother Becomes Writing Buddy
When my baby brother was born not quite sixty years ago, I never would have pegged him as my future writing buddy. He wasn’t the sister I’d hoped for, and at first, all he did was sleep. I was three-and-a-half at the time, and I thought he was dumb. I’ve long since revised my opinion […]
Volunteering at the BCJC
Brattleboro Community Justice Center – BCJC I went to jail in 2005 to teach writing to inmates, and I got out thinking, there’s got to be a better way. It turns out, there is. It’s called Restorative Justice and it’s practiced throughout Vermont. I started volunteering at the Brattleboro Community Justice Center in 2007, and […]
Home Alone
Everyone cleared out of the house yesterday, and for the first time in a long while, I find myself home alone. I was only slightly disappointed that I couldn’t go with those heading off to the Whites to hike above tree line; I’m nursing a sprained ankle that’s healing. But I was relieved, too. Even […]
A New Strategy for Writing in Summer
Summers used to interfere with my writing. There was so much to do – both farm work and fun – that I used to despair about advancing narrative projects and meeting deadlines. But I do. I changed my attitude about writing. Instead of heading straight for my desk after morning coffee, I’ve developed a completely […]
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