Heading to Santa Fe for a writing retreat; mostly planning to try to make progress on some food essays and a middle grade fantasy novel; wish me luck! Wanted to take a minute for two travel tips: 1) I’ve taken to a fairly monochrome wardrobe for travel; it makes it easier to mix and match […]
30 seconds — waves come in, waves go out. (The Lake Michigan water was pretty cold. But once my feet were numb, it was fine….)
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One more trip down to the water before leaving the BookCamp writing workshop in Racine.
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I ran away from the workshop to do one more restaurant meal in Racine — Thai food this time, at Sticky Rice. I got the pad prik khing, which was pretty good. But it was funny because I asked them to make it spicier, and the white 20-something behind the counter looked at me and
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Took a little walk down to the water. Siena Retreat Center. That pretty purple flower is crown vetch, unfortunately invasive in our region. “Crown Vetch was introduced into the United States from Europe by various transportation departments for erosion control and highway beautification. It is still planted as an ornamental plant in flower gardens, even
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Home safe, though we managed to walk in on our house sitter and TERRIFY her. On her birthday, no less. Oops.I’m a little scared of this stack of mail. But I can do this….
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Dinner at Thai Spice, Los Gatos. This has been a staple of mine for 30 years, I think. I love Kevin’s family, but they eat a lot of Italian / American, and there’s usually a point in the trip when I am CRAVING some flavor of Asian food. Los Gatos has a ton of options
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Mostly (sometimes hard) family stuff the last few days, but I did get to spend some time with both Alex Gurevich and Susan Lee, which was great, and the place we’re staying has a pool, which is also great. Friends and water, balm for the soul.
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Good morning! I’ve been up for two hours, since 4:30 a.m., because I’m clearly still on Chicago time, which has given me plenty of time to: • be amused by my bed head and decide to share it with the world• do some pleasure reading: I finally got around to the Gideon the 9th series
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