I write these words on Easter, that holiday which represents a triumphant e resurrection. It also coincides, at least here in Northeast America, with the resurrection of the year itself. The seasonal clock ticks loudly, rousing nature audibly from the deep sleep of winter (which, in Vermont and points north, looks so like death, but,…
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: Now why David, a documentary filmmaker once nominated for an Academy Award (for the film People of the Wind), decided to take on this job was a bit mysterious to me, but in seven years with the man, I've come to accept that I don't have to understand his decisions to admire the enthusiasm…
2010: this is the year you write your memoir
Will 2010 be the year you write your memoir? Yes — if you take “This is the Year You Write Your Memoir” , an extended 12-session course (3 day-long workshops; 9 3-hour evening classes) and if you’re ready to put in the reading and writing time outside of class; probably the equivalent of 45 minutes…
build your writing practice
Crescent’s new one-day workshop What’s a writing practice? Practice makes practice. No calling or enterprise worthy of the name is ever perfected or learned just once.“A writing practice” means that you make writing a regular part of your life. That simple; that complex. Whether you are just beginning to write or undertaking your first (or…
Redecoration, Part Two: Flambe
Sometimes, I swear I can still smell the smoke. Exactly two months and seventeen days after I became the legal owner of the farm, its kitchen exploded. On the face of it, this might be a humiliating thing for a cookbook author to confess, let alone one who also once set her hair on fire…
nixing the f-word:
I like the kind of menus where ingredients are sourced. You know, "Salad of Hill Farm Limestone Lettuce with Iowa Maytag Blue-Cheese, Terra Ranch Scallions & Peaches, Sonoma County Olive Oil & Meyer Lemon." I have been known to drive twenty miles, or walk twenty blocks, out of my way to eat at a Persian…