Deb, writing.

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Mise en Place

I’m reading a book right now by journalist and author Dan Charnas, who has taken the concept of Mise en Place from some of the world’s best chefs and kitchens, and applied it to other realms of work and life.…

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Motives

As I was listening to Big Magic (Liz Gilbert) for the second or third time a week or so ago, lines just kept popping out at me. I have the physical copy of the book as well as the audiobook,…

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Big Magic.

Liz Gilbert came into my life like a mushroom. Actually, like mycelium. Lots of things come into my life that way. Maybe that’s the way life works for everyone, and if we aren’t paying attention, the mushroom fruits, drops its…

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Writing Practice

This is a topic I was thinking about this morning. I have a couple of draft blog posts in the hopper I could have worked on. I’ve also got a couple of short stories, a screenplay, and at least one…

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Why Mushrooms?

People ask me how I got into growing mushrooms. I’m not sure how anyone else gets into this, but for me, it was reluctantly, on the assurances of my dear partner. By the time he suggested we become full-time mushroom…

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“I don’t know what I think until I write it down.”

Joan Didion

“We must risk delight. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.”

Jack Gilbert

Deb, March 2004

Mazatlan, Mexico

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

Murakami

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

Maya Angelou

My grandmother, my uncle, my dad

Terre Haute, Indiana, around 1955.