January 9, 2020
Gleanings
- The one benefit of not being able to follow in our parents’ footsteps is that we are forced to make our own.
- When I’m standing on the shores at Middle Cove Beach, about ten minutes’ drive from our house in St. John’s, I’m thinking of other shores and other waters: the mudbanks in Suriname, the white sands in Vlissingen, the wind and waves around the Cape of Good Hope—and the lives and stories of the enslaved and indentured.
- Don’t call my experience a patient “story”
- I’m grateful for all of it, even the uneven stitches, the courses of squares that won’t align properly, the stars that often need to be picked out and begun again (measure twice, cut once)…
- Sticky toffee pudding is usually made with dates and almost every person I’ve ever told that to who has had it but doesn’t peruse recipes for fun and entertainment (crazy!) has found that baffling
- Recommended, even with Katharine’s bookish preferences, which are completely antithetical to blogging…
- The rising of Grace Paley’s feminist consciousness—its fits and starts, fears and regrets— may be traced in her stories.
- Reading is not a competitive sport, but that doesn’t stop me from challenging myself…
- It’s the time of year I make my annual resolution to be weirder, more eccentric.
- In the fog of my fever, I could see the finished chapbooks and they were lovely.
- THAT SAID … I may write more about books in 2020.
- This is an experiment in how one book calls to another …
- To get us in the mood for all things Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy, Marmee and Laurie, I’m sharing two poems from the novel and a recipe from the new Little Women Cookbook by Wini Moranville
- Something in me relished the thought of going up to people and saying, “Listen to me, something terrible is about to happen, and I can save you.”
Oh Kerry, I love these. I’m always so happy when I stumble back here. Its like remembering the best breakfast place ever after a long long night out…
Eggs benny and homefries!! Glad you’re here.