Writing and Reading – Page 11

Poets of the everyday

“If your daily life seems of no account, don’t blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to…
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A birthday for me, a gift for you

I’ve already received exactly what I asked for for my birthday tomorrow. I gave my sons Henry and Jack plenty…
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Writing what we know — and a special book to give away

We were in the throes of change: selling a house, moving in with my parents, buying a house, fixing up…
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Cookies

A few months ago my friend Margaret Roach gave away a cookbook on her site A Way to Garden. I…
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New York memories

I was up at 6:30 the last two mornings, running in Central Park — the same route I used to…
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Connection

“Tug on anything at all,” naturalist John Muir once wrote, “and you’ll find it connected to everything else in the…
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