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Keeping Annie Alive
Despite being one of seven half-siblings, I am an only child. My family tree is unique. My father was an only child, despite being one of ten brothers–the rest being halves and steps. Who then cares about our pedigree? I do and one day one of the offspring of those half siblings may…
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Marco Pierre White, Wow!
If you don’t already, you should know about this man. He was the youngest chef to have received three coveted Michelin stars. He is the chef who gave them back. I would not want to work for this man, and fortunately, my plebeian cooking skills–oatmeal and salad–guarantee that I won’t ever do that.…
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Self-publishing Points
Self-publishing, independent publishing, vanity press, traditional publishers, small press–these words fill the head like a bad smell. But I’m getting clear on these issues. And finally producing the books I want. (Go look at my bookshelf page.) In order to get here, this is what I did: Came to regard self-publishing as my…
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Roger, Roger Rosenblatt
A book about writing was long overdue in my reading queue, and there from the library shelf winked Rosenblatt’s Unless It Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing. The book follows one semester in a creative writing program where students study and create short fiction, essays and poems. More than…
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The Joy of Reading
It’s Sunday, the blog is pretty much established, the dogs are walked and I have a fresh, hard-cover copy of Frances Mayes’s A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller. I also have a bad case of jealousy. Oh, to be able to wander Europe for a year, and be paid…
Karen Douglass, Author 