I spent last year filling journals with notes for a new novel—that part is easy. Today I at last broke through my creative resistance and typed up the first scene.
Onward, writers. Keep creating!
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Philly’s stunning City Hall grand entrance frames a view of the city tree. Urban Christmas is magical ✨
Your next fiction project? I would read the heck out of a novel with this premise. There are too few funny books about midlife secret projects.
Our neighborhood cheesesteak place, Dalessandro’s, was just recognized as a Bib Gourmand by Michelin! Woo!
Celebrated last night’s wins in Pennsylvania by paying forward my hope for what we could become and donated to Philabundance.
You can, too! philabundance.org
Thank you for spurring this heartless person to action! That was amazing.
Vecna flanked by demidogs. Tendrils of the upside down abound.
Uptown has really raised the bar for restaurant Halloween decorations. This is the Stranger Things section, one of several themed parts of the seating.
As much as it is a struggle to write creatively right now as corruption and cruelty runs amok federally, it is helping my mental health when I let myself immerse into my story world.
Bouquet of zinnias, celosias, dahlias and strawflowers in pinks and magenta beside an antique lamp.
The you-pick flowers as the CSA are absolutely glorious right now. This is one of 3 bouquets I made from recent picks
Weirdly feeling like I might have manifested Dobson’s end. Just days ago had a convo in which we weren’t sure if the king of child abuse promotion in churches was still kicking, and we both agreed, he won’t be any day now, and that Matt 18:5-6 is apt for his legacy.
I made fresh pesto for the first time, a triple batch because my basil is going gangbusters. I cut the expense somewhat using mostly cashews. Pine nuts are insanely expensive.
It’s soooo delicious. Most went in the freezer, and tomorrow some will debut in a meal.
WORD dagnabit, autocorrect!! 😖
What an evocative work is mucilage! 😂😬🤢😂
Ten okra pods, next to a 7” pen. They’re 1-1.5 inches longer!
The CSA okra is enormous! What are your favorite ways to prepare it?
Do you have any go-to recipes for okra? We’re getting some in this week’s CSA share, and I’ve only ever used it in soups as a natural thickener. (Blushes in Yankee)
We just signed up for PBS passport and we’re so excited to enjoy the great content. Way cheaper than other streaming platforms and helps keep public television from vanishing entirely.
Our cone flowers had that blight a few years ago (Roxborough). I harvested all the affected flowers so it wouldn’t spread. Not sure of the cause.
Rejoicing that the Beckett collection I co-edited is out in the world!
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Blighted cone flowers with multiple centers and no petals
Hope you can keep them safe from leafhopper infestation that causes super weird blight like this:
I’d stopped to fuel up the car and ended up in a long conversation about Genesis with a random lady clearly from a Pentecostal background. She sure gets stoked about signs and wonders like this.
Double rainbow over the roof of a Wawa.
Tonight’s double rainbow is sponsored by…
The hubs suggested we check out a band that does “yacht rock” and dang are we having a blast. It’s all the hits of our GenX childhood.
20+ foot high tree broken off at the roots.
Grieved to discover that a tree I’d planted during a neighborhood planting day 18 years ago was taken out at the roots by last Thursday’s intense storm. I will miss patting its trunk and saying “hi, baby.” 😭
It felt kinda biggish being in the midst of my neighbors, but wow! We Philadelphians really showed up and stood strong together 💙
Clearly a reincarnated Shakespearean actor
An absolute icon. I love this statue of her in Seneca Falls, NY. She was important to women’s suffrage also!
Whoever made “disconnect” popular as a noun is my mortal enemy.
DisconnecTION is the noun form, $&*% jargon-creating noun-er of verbs! 😡
#editorrant
Truly made me so sadsad and assoured. 😭/😂
