Dear Readers,
Greetings from between the years! I really like this quiet time when a lot of the world is closed, with or without Covid. One gets a bit of a breather—time for reflection and putting stuff in order.
In my case that was our living room bookshelves. Lifting and carrying all those books and sorting them into these shelves we had built in over the summer left me with tendonitis in my right forearm. All the while I had been worried that my back would give out! So, due to my arm hurting like hell, I'll keep this newsletter short, but I did want to get it out today because:
I am happy to present you with my Writer's Workbook 2022. Please click the hyperlink or image below to download.
As announced in my last issue, my online course is currently enrolling:
Learn all about it here, and reserve your spot!
This is a workshop course, so I do need to limit the number of participants.
The course begins January 16, 2022.
For all of you subscribers, I am happy to offer a 20% discount:
Please use the coupon code NEWSLETTERSUBSCRIBER at checkout.
As usually happens when you create something, you think of things you never would have thought of otherwise. Preparing my course lectures, my family objects for my Book of My Things are on my mind. I'm experiencing myself how writing about one object
leads to me wanting to write more and include more photos than I initially planned. Images of the people to whom an object used to belong, or the place where it used to be. I've been diving into old photo boxes! Here's another example of such a story:
These quiet between-the-years days are good for baking and munching on goodies while you binge on a series, so I'm sharing this recipe with you that my daughter just made last night (since I'm not about to stir batter with my aching arm.)
Lately I have been sharing recipes from dear friends; recipes that have become family favorites (see White Chicken Chili recipe). Today’s recipe for pumpkin bread comes from my friend Dawn Pleasant. We worked at the same company in the early ’90s – my very first
job in the U.S. Even though Dawn is of my mom’s generation, we became fast friends. We shared, in particular, a love of reading.
Dawn used to make big batches of this pumpkin bread, usually baked in coffee tins, to sell at her church’s bake sale in the fall.
I hope you made it through Christmas time without getting Covid as so many others have. We had that scare, too, but it turned out my husband just has a cold virus that so far, thank God, I haven't picked up.
With best wishes for 2022,
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