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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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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

me & my semi-famous aging mother: navigating love with fierce persistence

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“Happy Mother’s Day,” we say, as if it were that simple. It usually isn’t. Complex, ambivalent,  contradictory, with more layers than a baklava: that begins, barely, to describe the relationship my mother, Charlotte Zolotow, and I have with each other. That it has at last grown simpler and less ambivalent in the last couple of […]

Filed Under: Books, Charlotte Zolotow, Crescent Dragonwagon, self-understanding, personal growth, Writing Courses Tagged With: aging parents, children's book writing, children's books, fame, Mother's Day, writing

transparency, part 2: a little madness in the spring

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Sometimes it seems to me that everything reflects everything. Becoming transparent in the human sense, as I wrote about in the previous post, means that more light gets in, and out, in a spiritual, or maybe for some, emotional or psychological sense. Transparency in the culinary sense, as I understand it, is both like and […]

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transparency

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So I have this thing going on with the tendons on in my left foot. The details don’t matter; it’s getting better. What does matter is this: I see a doctor at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, approximately a 55-minute drive from where I live in Vermont. DHMC, in my view, has a lot of stars in […]

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“You’ll get a big kick out of this.”

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This was the subject line on an email from Patti, who handles sales of my, my late husband’s, and my mother’s out-of-print books. Some we still have actual copies of; others we are set up (thanks to Patti) to offer digital copies of, for downloading. (My mother, BTW, is the children’s book writer Charlotte Zolotow. […]

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Read Aloud with Crescent and Mark

NOT A LITTLE MONKEY, by Charlotte Zolotow, illustrted by Michelle Chessaree

"So, the little girl climbed into the big waste-basket and waited." ' Oh no,' said her mother, ' we don't want to throw you away.'"There are many ways to express love and the need for attention. Here, a busy mother and her just-a-bit naughty little girl tease each other affectionately — the little girl making her point without even uttering a word.That's today's story time — read aloud by the author's daughter at Crescent Dragonwagon's Writing, Cooking, & Workshops, with Mark Graff's "text support" and discussion."Just right for two-to-fours, the humor of this true-to-life story of a mischievous little girl who blocks her mother's attempts to clean house will elicit giggles from the lollipop set." Kirkus Reviews

Posted by Crescent Dragonwagon's Writing, Cooking, & Workshops on Thursday, June 4, 2020

Read Aloud with Crescent

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The Washington Post on Crescent’s Lentil Soup Recipe

The Washington Post on Crescent’s Lentil Soup Recipe

Greek Lentil Soup with Spinach and Lemon, photograph by Tom McCorkle, Washington Post

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