Well! It’s been awhile. January was unforgiving in its relentlessness for me, in every way, but I’m recovering. Some randomness and what’s to come:

I’ve been reading a lot of Alice Munro. I’ve always liked her, but the stories in Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage…

I’ve been busy, writing a lot, thinking a lot. One thing I’ve been thinking about (again) is the place of this blog in my life now. In the last couple of weeks I’ve signed up for Google+, then deleted it, unsubscribed from everything in…

I’ve been a fan of Adele Griffin’s for a long, long time. And I don’t mean to make her feel old by saying “long, long” instead of merely “long.” We’re the same age, after all. What I’m saying is: Adele began publishing back in…

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I’ve been slowly, slowly reading Jo Ann Beard’s In Zanesville. Slowly, not because it’s a slow book, but because it more or less blew my mind every few pages and I needed to process…

Sorry for the blog-neglect, friends. There’s a lot going on! Exciting times. Uncertain times. Which is part of what makes them exciting. It should be a fairly newsy year. Meeaaaanwhile:

- Comrade Keith Dixon has a new cookbook/memoir out, called Cooking for Gracie: The Making…