It’s been a while, but back to tell you that my Nepenthe Thanksgiving story–”Culture Club”–just made it into Saveur Magazine (Nov 2010, p 20). Here’s an online link to the accompanying recipe for Piquant Corn Bread adapted from My Nepenthe. Hope you will pick up a copy and make a comment on my Facebook page, [...]
Where to begin. So much and not enough time as I said in my last post. In fact my desk is still a lovely mess, the sourdough starter hasn’t moved an inch on the counter and yet is now awaiting its first feeding (twice daily for 2 more weeks), the Italian prunes (plums) still shriveling [...]
I’m touched by my readers’ response to my poem Ode to Memory, and the what and how poems convey meaning, conjuring new ideas, relationships, old and new, a “carving out of memory,” for one, “with the intensity and wonder of life itself,” for another. How mine could take one to Russia in thought, which then took me [...]
