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Crescent Dragonwagon

identity gumbo

By Crescent Dragonwagon

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 […]

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

By Crescent Dragonwagon

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 […]

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)

By Crescent Dragonwagon

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 […]

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

By Crescent Dragonwagon

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 […]

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

By Crescent Dragonwagon

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 […]

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

By Crescent Dragonwagon

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 […]

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…

By Crescent Dragonwagon

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 […]

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)

By Crescent Dragonwagon

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, […]

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

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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

Read Aloud with Crescent

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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"(With) weary animals, Dragonwagon offers an “alphabet of ways to sleep,” smoothly working in some alliteration..."
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