Lyanda is out of town, so Claire is stepping in with a guest post:
This week my mom was away and I had to make cookies with my dad, to get ready for a Halloween party. Scary! We decided to make cat and pumpkin cookies. We used a recipe from my “Look And Cook” cookbook, and [...]
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It’s the end of the harvest season, and although a great deal of my mind and energy is turned to enjoying the fruits of this year’s produce (today I’m canning applesauce and freezing pureed sugar pie pumpkin) already I find myself dreaming of the spring garden. Part of this impulse, I realize, is inspired by [...]
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First, I have to say thank you thank you thank you to all of you who have turned out to my readings and events this past month. I have been completely overwhelmed and overjoyed at the response to Crow Planet. Thank you for sitting (and standing) in hot crowded rooms, for bringing feathers and photos [...]
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It’s the peak of tomato season in Seattle–the plants are covered with the most beautiful shades of green, orange, yellow, red, and burgundy. We are canning tomatoes, drying tomatoes, making salsa, carrying baskets of tomatoes to neighbors, concocting tomato recipes, and of course eating cherry tomatoes like they’re potato chips. Last night I made this [...]
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Every year I happily, and rather naively, plot out my plan for hazelnut foraging in the neighborhood: which park trees look hopeful, which neighbors have fruitful hazelnut trees in their yards and might be persuaded to let me harvest a few. My aspirations are simple, and mainly even symbolic. I don’t need heaps of hazelnuts, [...]
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Crow Planet has finally left the nest! I have heard many writer-friends say that it seems surreal to see their book out in the world, being read by folks they don’t even know. Somehow, with this book, I feel just the opposite. It seems perfectly natural to see it in other people’s hands. I wrote [...]
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Though The Tangled Nest is still quite new, and it may seem early to be going on a blog vacation, I will nevertheless be taking a short spring break from:
1. The List (you know the one)
2. The cold Seattle weather
3. Extremely edifying books
4. Things that plug in
I was going to add a 5, 6, and [...]
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