Sometimes the memory of a favorite childhood food is better than the reality. My mom used to make something that I, as a child, dubbed “cookie candy.” It is baked in a square or oblong pan and consists of a cookie layer topped with a meringue and brown sugar mixture and baked all together. IContinue reading “Cookie Candy”
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Illicit Cultural Property: Shame on Sam Brownback
Illicit Cultural Property: Shame on Sam Brownback: “‘Tragic Prelude’, John Steuart Curry, in the Kansas Statehouse States which are not always able to lure arts organizations and touring com…”
Daydreaming
“Where do you get your ideas?” is a question writers are often asked. And while ideas burst into life anywhere from family stories to personal experience to newspaper articles, an idea does not become a piece of writing without silence and time to daydream.Just like a seed, an idea needs to be left alone toContinue reading “Daydreaming”
Starting Over Again on a Snow Day
I am constantly starting over, regrouping, reorganizing and trying to simplify. This applies to to writing as well as my life in general. This morning I drove to my substitute teaching job, only to be told that the district had decided to close the school for students, meaning no work for substitute teachers.I returned homeContinue reading “Starting Over Again on a Snow Day”