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The Pie I Didn’t Bake
It’s that time of year again — and I’m re-running this post, which first appeared as an essay in the East Bay Express 20 years ago. My thoughts are with all those who suffer from addiction this Thanksgiving, and with those who love them. ** A week before Thanksgiving, and I’m making a list. Canned pumpkin. Evaporated milk. Nutmeg, allspice, and – after double-checking the cupboard – cinnamon: spices I won’t use again until next year. I flip through The Joy of Cooking to a page stained with flour and butter, and after reviewing Basic Pie Crust, lift the sack … Continue reading
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Morning After
I started to write this morning about the shock and disappointment and fear that I, and so many people around me, feel. I started to write about the weird quiet when I awoke this a.m., the way people looked at each other on the bus — with kindness, like after 9/11, but also with a jittery attention to the screamer on the street, the conspiracy theorist speaking too loudly to ignore — the way my office feels like a morgue. I started to write about how I grew up feeling proud of my country, and how I still get misty-eyed … Continue reading
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For Your Listening Pleasure
Ten of my short stories are now available as audio books on Audible! Several of the stories were published almost 20 years ago, and the others more recently. It’s wonderful to hear talented narrators bring new life to words I first heard only in my imagination. I’ve read many of these aloud myself, so I’m used to them as “mine” — hearing them anew makes them work as stories. Not just my stories, but stories out there in the world. For that, I’m grateful. Last night I drove from Rainbow Grocery to the Sutter-Stockton garage in about 18 minutes, just … Continue reading
The Pie I Didn’t Bake
You know those seasonal columns that get repeated each year? Maybe it’s a cleverly rhyming send-off to the year, or a list of what the writer is thankful for. This Thanksgiving, for the second year now, I’m posting an essay that first appeared in the 12/27/96 issue of East Bay Express. ** A week before Thanksgiving, and I’m making a list. Canned pumpkin. Evaporated milk. Nutmeg, allspice, and – after double-checking the cupboard – cinnamon: spices I won’t use again until next year. I flip through The Joy of Cooking to a page stained with flour and butter, and after … Continue reading
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Now Sit Right Back
Something’s up. Twice in the past week, I’ve done something I rarely do. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I did it, before last Thursday. I watched a TV show. Last Thursday found me scrolling through Comcast on Demand for Wolf Hall. Last night, I went to iTunes and downloaded The Americans. For many of you, this may seem either inconsequential (=dull) or too little, too late. I’ve never watched Breaking Bad, Homeland, Girls, or Downton Abbey; I’m hopelessly out of it when lunchtime conversation turns to Game of Thrones or House of Cards. I’ve heard of most … Continue reading
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Tagged Alias Smith and Jones, All in the Family, Brady Bunch, Breaking Bad, cable TV, Downton Abbey, Fractured Fairy Tales, Game of Thrones, Gilligan's Island, Girls, Gomer Pyle, Hogan's Heroes, Homeland, House of Cards, Kate & Allie, Land of the Lost, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Lindsey Crittenden, Love American Style, M*A*S*H*, Mad Men, Murphy Brown, novel-writing, Partridge Family, revision, Roald Dahl, Room 222, Run Joe Run, television, The Americans, The Odd Couple, Three's Company, TV, Wolf Hall, writing
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