It’s been snowing a lot in Fairbanks these past few days. Which means I’ve been scooping a lot. That’s how we clear our driveway of snow, the scoop being mostly made of a galvanized sheet of steel, fabricated right in the shop of one of the oldest businesses in Fairbanks, Wilbur Brothers Sheet Metal. It […]
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I love lists of all kinds. Grocery lists, to-do lists, “catalog verse,” Wikipedia tables (there is a page that contains a list of microorganisms tested in outer space). My interest in the form was sparked when I was an MFA candidate at University of British Columbia in 1992 and I discovered a book by Robert
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“Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.” ~ M.F.K. Fisher When my husband Carl and I left Anchorage to start our lives in the backcountry, I brought along a small box of cookbooks. As Carl worked on the main lodge he was building, and I remained
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I settled onto the big white couch, wide enough to put my feet up and rest my laptop comfortably for writing. I wrapped around a soft fuzzy throw and held a warm mug of herbal tea. All ready to write a blog, I thought, and on a topic particularly pleasurable for me–culinary writing. And, then
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Some years ago, I was perusing The Cook’s Book, a cookbook edited by Jill Norman (one of my favorite culinary writers). It’s a roundup collection of recipes by various famed chefs of the time. The chapter on Japanese cooking was written by chef Hisayuki Takeuchi, a Japanese chef specializing in kaiseki cooking living in Paris.
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It’s come to the end of the month. Thanks to 49 Writers for inviting me to participate in these weekly posts. With workshops, writers’ blogs, CrossCurrents, Poems in Place, and their many other services for writers in Alaska and beyond, 49 Writers is indeed an Alaska presence. I was fortunate enough to spend two months
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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time. This expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not
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Last year I had a big poetry manuscript project that I was working feverishly on. This year, I knew that I would finish that project in the first quarter, and I worried that I might just stop writing. This is a common fear of writers, that the last thing we’ve written will be the LAST
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Two-hundred and sixty-five single-spaced pages in 11 point Helvetica font, one inch margins. 170,743 words. These are the statistics of my 2015 journal. The one that I write in each morning for precisely a half hour. I set a timer. Why am I telling you this? Most novels clock in somewhere between 75,000 and 125,000
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A delighted reader from the Loewen household “I leaf through now one book, now another, without order, and without plan, by disconnected fragments,” wrote Michel de Montaigne, father of the essay, claiming, “If I am a man of some reading, I am a man of no retention.” Last week I made a similar admission, wondering
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