(if anyone reads this?) that there wasn't a reading update for June. Oh some reading happened, mostly magazines, and lots of podcast listening. I'll tally some of my current subscriptions (magazines on Libby, podcasts on Apple Podcasts) at the bottom. June was a bit...
When I was single-mom commuting 80 miles a day roundtrip to grad school for a full day—TA in morning comp classes and my writing workshops at night—I spent a lot of time in a little coffeeshop down from the library. The name I can’t recall but I’m certain it was of...
This is an edited repost from my previous blog ars culinaria. It originally appeared in January 2010 but still captures my feelings about Twelfth Night and midwinter. The old winter season of merrymaking kicked off on All Saints’ Day in November and lasted straight...
Thanksgiving is in two days as I write this. I've ordered the turkey and braved the grocery. I'll start cooking tomorrow with a batch of my mom's cornbread - without the sugar - for her Down South dressing from the 1940s edition of the Good Housekeeping Cookbook. I...
My husband and son would be the first to let you know that I am not the placidly calm human I am often mistaken for. I don't think I have a very good poker face, which makes me think what people take for an even-keeled visage is actually my panic and/or conflict...
I've been back in Knoxville over a year. That year mark is usually where I start to feel like I live somewhere, a new space, a new place. The transition here has been different than my last few moves which were all just to new rentals in Nashville. Moving back to...