This Older Woman Talking to the Younger Women in the Room (what I should have said) Sunday night, I had the pleasure of gathering with fifteen brilliant women (writer-friends) to discuss a much-buzzed-about book. None of us had written it, but the conversation sparked strong opinions (writers, after all) and deeply personal disclosures (women, after … Read more

From Supermarket Rage to Talking to Strangers

Yesterday, while playing bumper carts in Wegmans, fearful I wouldn’t find shredded carrots (oh, the agony of having to shred with my own hands!) I fumed at carts left unattended, blocking the chicken stock I needed. My desire to ram into the young man idling across two lanes in the baking stuff aisle could barely be checked. … Read more

Joyously Baking for Book Events

When I was newly married—at 19, no less— my then-husband and I moved to a farm between Binghamton and Ithaca, New York. His job was being a farmhand. Mine was reading twenty books a week, watching the one television station available, and gaining weight. The cookies below helped wildly in that last endeavor. We lived far … Read more