OINK: A FOOD FOR THOUGHT MYSTERY Coming April 2017 with She Writes Press
Emily Addams is the last person you’d expect police to be circling in a poisoning investigation. A professor of women’s studies, a foodie, and a doting mom, Emi...
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STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON
“And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.” – Libba Bray I was bummed when “Straight Outta Compton” received only one Oscar...
FOR THE HOLIDAYS: 99 CENT BOOK SALE OF TASTING HOME
Dear Friends, Just in time for the holidays, my food memoir, Tasting Home: Coming of Age in the Kitchen, will be on sale for 99 cents on Dec 9 -10. Consider giv...
MAYHEM: A WOMAN’S LIFE IN RURAL TEXAS
A Review of Mayhem by Elizabeth Harris “A young woman climbing out of an old Essex in a cloche hat and a flowered maroon rummage-sale dress in front of the Prin...
“COLD MOUNTAIN”: A FEMINIST NIGHT AT THE OPERA
Riding to the opera through the New Mexican landscape of twilight mountains and ever shifting clouds, I wondered why Jennifer Higdon, a Pulitzer Prize-winning f...
GOING DUTCH
I hadn’t come to Amsterdam for the food. Although I meant to sample regional dishes—mainly Dutch apple pie and pancakes—what I’d really come for was the art, t...
TRAVEL AS TENDERNESS TOWARD EXPERIENCE
Young people, and especially our children, can revive our capacity for wonder at the world and a sense of intimate connection to it. I felt closer to the landsc...
A REVIEW OF “SOMEONE” BY ALICE MCDERMOTT
To read this novel is to feel the wonder of life anew and to become, however momentarily, a better person. It’s been said that women’s novels have great charact...
NORWEGIAN WOODS
A cluster of red and white wooden buildings nest in a meadow at the edge of a lake that is really the long finger of a Norwegian fjord. The sheds and houses are...
MY TRIP TO PITCH FEST
It’s walking through one door that enables you to try the next. While writing a blog about “retirement as an open door,” I decided this August to attend a Scree...