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identity gumbo

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What does it matter if we know, or tell, our personal stories? I wrote, on June 9 post, about buying a lungwort plant at the annual plant sale for the Putney Library, and the extra pleasure that small bit of history gives me each year when it blooms. I love getting plants in such ways, rather than from a nursery…. Read More

Filed Under: Charlotte Zolotow, Crescent Dragonwagon, self-understanding, personal growth Tagged With: Arkansas, death, Eureka Springs, gardening, gradual transformation, narrative, natural world, poetry, writers, writing

insomniac lessons

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There’s no doubt that my life would be more in sync with the way the world generally runs, if I had what are usually viewed as normal sleep patterns. I guess that is why some people use CBD products or simply smoke cannabis. Some people have aversions to smoking marijuana which is why using a vaporizer is often preferred. Fortunately,… Read More

Filed Under: Crescent Dragonwagon, self-understanding, personal growth, Writing Courses Tagged With: aging, appreciation, Arkansas, compassion towards self and others, friendship, getting things done, gradual transformation, insomnia, narrative, poetry, Vermont, writers, writing

narrative flowers, garden blues (Houseman, Hopkins, on harmony)

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The moment: Saturday afternoon, May 7, 2008, 2:11 pm. The place: a house on the top of a hill, not far from the small town of Saxtons River, Vermont. The view: a southeast facing window in which a vividly green meadow, exclamation-marked with a stand of tall silver-white birches, is framed first by woods, then sinuous curve after curve of… Read More

Filed Under: Charlotte Zolotow, Crescent Dragonwagon, self-understanding, personal growth Tagged With: A.E. Houseman, appreciation, Arkansas, Brattleboro, compassion towards self and others, David Koff, death, eating locally, environmentalism, gardening, Gerard Manley Hopkins, gradual transformation, grief & grieving, poetry, Vermont, writers, writing

blue-ribbon silliness

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I’m still going through business cards gathered at April’s International Association of Culinary Professionals conference, catching up with what I scribbled on the back of each, reminders of promises made (probably foolishly, but with the best of intentions). If you look at the May 1 post, you’ll see that April was a whole month of bebopping above and beyond IACP…which… Read More

Filed Under: Crescent Dragonwagon Tagged With: appreciation, Arkansas, canning & preserving, cooking, Eureka Springs, friendship, love, Ned Shank, writers, writing

Ohhhhhhh-krahoma: eat/be eaten, “write naked” , vegetable chameleons

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Ohhhhh-krahoma! (Or, the color purple). On Thursday I found actual okra plants, starts, seedlings! (If this doesn’t seem like big news to you , please go back and read the post for May 27). So maybe I will get some honest-to-goodness non "curiosity" okra from my very own garden this year. I’m still going to plant my okra seeds, though,… Read More

Filed Under: self-understanding, personal growth Tagged With: Brattleboro, children's book writing, children's books, David Koff, death, eating locally, gardening, grief & grieving, localvore, love, natural world, Ned Shank, poetry, spring, Vermont, writers, writing

why every life should have a pugilistic 98-year old in it

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Aunt Dot beats the odds again. Aunt Dot (Dorothy Arnof to the rest of the world except my brother, Stephen) is out of the hospital and back in her apartment on East 57th Street. (If this doesn’t sound like stop-the-presses news to you, please go back and read the posts for May 21 and May 19). Aunt Dot’s 98th birthday… Read More

Filed Under: Charlotte Zolotow, self-understanding, personal growth Tagged With: aging, appreciation, compassion towards self and others, eldercare, gradual transformation, health, Ned Shank, peace, Vermont

My boyfriend’s (almost) back…

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It’s 10:57 P.M., Wednesday night. I’ve been expecting the phone to ring and it does: David. His plane has landed at BDL, the Hartford, Connecticut airport. He’s just pulling out of the rental car parking lot. In about two hours, he’ll be here. When David was here last weekend, at one point we were fixing something, or maybe doing summerization… Read More

Filed Under: Crescent Dragonwagon, self-understanding, personal growth Tagged With: aging, appreciation, compassion towards self and others, David Koff, friendship, gradual transformation, love, Ned Shank, peace, sexuality, writing

Playing Scrabble with the dead, feasting at the Brattleboro Farmers Market (with the very much alive)

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The other day, Saturday, I’m driving down the unpaved road which leads from from my home at the top of the down to Westminster West Road. I’m with Traca Savadago, my "pan pal" and all-around buddy. She’s a friend in the meet and instantly feel you’ve known each other a long time category, though we’ve actually only known each other… Read More

Filed Under: Crescent Dragonwagon, self-understanding, personal growth Tagged With: appreciation, Arkansas, Brattleboro, compassion towards self and others, cooking, culinary writing, eating locally, environmentalism, Eureka Springs, farmer's markets, friendship, gardening, gradual transformation, localvore, natural world, spring, Traca Savadago, Vermont, writers, writing

Relationshape-shifting: change, constancy, love, time, and “blace”

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From Toni Morrison, in Inventing the Truth: the Art and Craft of Memoir: "When I hear someone say "truth is stranger than fiction," I think that old chestnut is truer than we know… it doesn’t say that truth is truer than fiction; just that it’s stranger, meaning that it’s odd. It may be excessive, it may be more interesting, but… Read More

Filed Under: Charlotte Zolotow, Crescent Dragonwagon, self-understanding, personal growth Tagged With: aging, aging parents, appreciation, Arkansas, compassion towards self and others, death, eldercare, Eureka Springs, gradual transformation, grief & grieving, health, Ned Shank, Vermont, writers, writing

night drive with rain, arrows, gingerbread crumbs, too-big numbers, and, as always, questions

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"… so perhaps the work is the arrow, flying from the writer towards what she will become…" This may not be the exact quote, but it’s more or less what I remember from May Sarton’s Journal of a Solitude, which I read some thirty-five years ago. It was a book I found self-indulgent even then, but the idea behind the… Read More

Filed Under: Charlotte Zolotow, self-understanding, personal growth, Writing Courses Tagged With: aging parents, appreciation, compassion towards self and others, driving at night, E. L. Doctorow, gingerbread, gradual transformation, health, May Sarton, Vermont, writers, writing

Still life with owl, food writer, and cosmic goofiness

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I’ve been working on culinary writing today. Besides my cookbooks, I do short pieces for Relish Magazine, which is kind of like a food-only Parade, and has hands-down the two nicest, best-to-work-with magazine editors for whom I’ve ever written, Jill Melton and Candace Floyd … I’ve just finished, minus one recipe I still need to test, a piece for them… Read More

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A few quick post-Mother’s Day P.S.’s, re writing

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1. The New Yorker cartoon showing the sullen college-age girl in seated in a window seat, cup of tea on the floor beside her, writing in a notebook balanced on her knees. Caption: "“Dear Mom and Dad: Thanks for the happy childhood. You’ve destroyed any chance I had of becoming a writer.” 2. My late father, Maurice Zolotow, telling me… Read More

Filed Under: Crescent Dragonwagon, self-understanding, personal growth Tagged With: aging parents, children's book writing, children's books, Mother's Day, mothers, writers, writing

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Tuesdays with Crescent Spring 2019

Tuesdays with Crescent Spring 2019

January Class Series

January Class Series

Works In Progress Spring 2019

Works In Progress Spring 2019

#DeepFeast Recipes

A  LENTIL SOUP SO “RICH, FRAGRANT, SATISFYING” THAT SOMEONE ATE IT DAILY – HAPPILY! – FOR 15 YEARS
PUCKER UP, BUTTERNUT: SOULFUL WINTER SQUASH SOUP WITH GINGER-APPLE SALSA
TOMATO MEDITATION, AT SUMMER’S END
COOL HAND CUKE: CUCUMBER-YOGURT SOUP WITH MINT, & GRAPES,  WITH A VEGAN VARIATION.
I FEED THIS GUINNESS STOUT CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE TO MY FATHER ONLY IN MY DREAMS
STILL BEANING AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
A TIMELESS BLUEBERRY COFFEE CAKE, RIGHT NOW. AND, INTRODUCING MONK-FRUIT, BEST-EVER ALTERNATIVE TO SUGAR.
YET ANOTHER  SECRET REVEALED IN MY FAMOUS “RAISIN-PUMPERNICKEL BREAD WITH A SECRET”

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Dinner with Dragonwagon

PUCKER UP, BUTTERNUT: SOULFUL WINTER SQUASH SOUP WITH GINGER-APPLE SALSA
COOL HAND CUKE: CUCUMBER-YOGURT SOUP WITH MINT, & GRAPES,  WITH A VEGAN VARIATION.
I FEED THIS GUINNESS STOUT CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKE TO MY FATHER ONLY IN MY DREAMS
STILL BEANING AFTER ALL THESE YEARS

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Rouses Markets Features Crescent’s Ultimate Veggie Burger

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Works In Progress Spring 2019 Group

Works In Progress Spring 2019 Group

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