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A Poet Laureate in our Presence

Washington State Poet, Rena Priest My Poetry Club, meeting since 2015, has studied classic and contemporary poets (think Wordsworth and Margaret Atwood), well-known and lesser-known writers (Ferlinghetti and R.C. Weslowski) writers, but we’ve never had a real-time...

Ratatouille Redux

During most of the Covid-19 pandemic, Christian’s and my food explorations were back-burnered. We stopped our socially distanced cooking in his garage last Spring, but not before we put together two dozen packages of homemade granola for friends and family. With...
Becoming a Ghost

Becoming a Ghost

Punching “ghostwriting” into Britannica.com brings up “forgery.” Britannica does not include a separate article distinguishing the genre from counterfeiters of art, literature, etc. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a ghostwriter as “Originally a hack writer who...

“What’s For Dinner Tonight?”

Amory with Cooper My wife Amory looks forward to Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday Cooking with Chala meals. Interesting recipes, created in another family’s kitchen, translate into a diversity of flavors and no sink of encrusted pots to scrub. Clean-up’s her job at...