Sunday, May 1, 2016. Where I live, lilacs are blooming everywhere, which reminds me of living in Oregon - the first place I lived with a noticeable number of lilacs. There are a variety of lilacs available - and the area around me has a lot of them. The process is straight forward, and fairly fast, at least for active cooking time. I let my flowers steep in the warm sugar water for a while, which heightened the color of the syrup. The most time consuming part is removing the flo.

Tuesday, July 5, 2016. For me, our two weeks in her home felt, in quieter moments, like an intermission, a held breath. My time in one community had drawn to a close; my life in another community was about to begin. What would that feel like? What would it bring? Wednesday, September 23, 2015.

March 15, 2016 1 Comment. When the bad news comes it seems to swirl around you, so thickly at first that you can almost feel the wind of it, the cold, and the rest of the world feels very outside as you sit in that circle of the white silent storm and try to comprehend. All the loving people outside the circle want to reach toward you. This is so kind and wonderful of them but also, on your hard days, too much to ask. Just let me feel hateful and angry and alone! Your own emotions are so everywhere that .

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Tuesday, May 19, 2015. This is spoilery and a little bitchy.

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