It’s getting cold again tomorrow (I am so tired of cold, this point of winter in Chicago is hard, when all you want is for the line to start solidly trending upward), but look. Flowers coming. We just need to hang in there a little longer. (Hellebores, first blooming perennial.)
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Bay Area peeps — trying to schedule book tour. TWO QUESTIONS: 1) I’ll be there March 4-8 for FogCon in Walnut Creek, and may have time for a book event. What bookstores / libraries would you recommend in: Marin / Sausalito / San Francisco / Oakland / Berkeley? • I’m going to contact Omnivore, the
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Content note: diet & exercise. Today I finally started the morning with 30 min. walking on treadmill (at 2.0 speed) while doing recipe posting (instead of sitting on couch). I’ve been meaning to get back to that for weeks, and somehow every morning I just didn’t. But today I did. And I’m now making a
Sri Lankan Spinach Curry A friend asked me for a good spinach curry recipe, and I had to admit that I’ve never managed one I was happy with, so I tried working on it this weekend. I love saag / palak in restaurants, but my earlier attempts came out sort of watery and lacking in
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Just a sunny weekend Kavi. We were talking last night when I was saying goodnight to her, and I was telling her that she really was too perfect a child — funny and smart and kind, etc., so she started listing her flaws. Kavi says she is stubborn (true, but I kind of think that’s
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Publishing question, especially for professional readers — we’re trying to decide how to allocate publicity money for Feast, and are looking at NetGalley. “NetGalley blurb: A 6-month listing with NetGalley is $450. It allows professional readers to request the book for download. The author can view profiles for each requesting member and choose which requests
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Our Valentine’s weekend brunch, courtesy Kavya. (How much mess was generated in this process? So much. Did we make her clean it up? Not this time — we’re mostly working on her being confident in the kitchen right now; we’ll get to ‘clean as you go’ when she’s a little steadier on the actual cooking
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I spent a few hours yesterday (some of it with Mary Rodes Dell keeping me company, which was super-helpful for powering through a huge, tedious task, thank you!) on reorganizing the unfinished basement. This is a huge project — in the hurriedness of last fall, it got v. chaotic down there, all higgledy-piggledy, and then I decided
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The tropical plants that I bring in for the winter are mostly a wall of green, which works just fine for me in bleak January, a bulwark against the snow. But by February, I’m longing for a little color, esp. pink. 🙂 I’ve tucked a Trader Joe’s orchid into one pot (still in its separate little
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Really good anti-racism training for the library board this morning, brilliantly and compassionately (yet uncompromisingly) led by Reesheda Graham Washington. (Wish I’d gotten a better photo of her, but when she was animatedly talking, I was very busy listening.) Will write more about it soon, but I have to say, it’s also exhausting, being present that
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