And then the pit bull jumped up and hit me hard in the cheekbone. I am used to dogs and can generally de-escalate most situations. The couple were nearby, perhaps twenty or thirty feet away from me. Their unleashed dog ran up and sat in front of me. The owners said, "He's friendly," but owners almost [...]
LET THEM EAT CAKE
One of my favorite websites sent out a link to their recipe for confetti cake. It is made with artificial coloring (in the confetti), colorless artificial vanilla (for that true "box cake" flavor), egg white, oil, and cake flour (bleached). My husband and I must be the only people left in the world who have [...]
and MORE
Gary loves fruitcake, even the awful gumdrop sort which I would not even use as a doorstop. I like the real thing. I made a traditional wedding cake for our wedding in 1974, a dark, aged cake from a nineteenth century recipe. This is what our family regarded as a wedding cake: fruitcake with white [...]
ENOUGH
Years ago a friend who was visiting us looked at the shore and thought he was seeing soap suds or another form of pollution. It is, in fact, life. A heavy surf and a plankton bloom combine to make seafoam. There has been a great deal of it onshore this month. We have been experiencing [...]
heartbroken?
Look, I have this firm belief that if America hasn't broken your heart, you don't love her enough.—Sen. Cory Booker
READINGS
I used to require my college writing students to attend: MFA in Writing Residency Brings Top Writers to Seaside for Nightly Readings in January The Pacific University Master of Fine Arts in Writing program hosts readings by top contemporary writers during its 10-day residency in Seaside. The series offers a rare opportunity to hear these [...]
WOUND
The sky is raining down hard, we expect a "king" tide flood at the time I am supposed to be driving north, and I should be asleep as I type this. I am thinking backward and forward. I will not get back to sleep. I think about war and how it is wound and stain. [...]
