"Give a Piece a Chance." — Books. Blog. Pie Classes. And a Pinch of Activism.
The “Black Ops” as they called themselves, striking their first pose of many. A few weeks ago I posted some pictures on my Facebook biz page from a pie class I taught at my house (my house being the American Gothic House, in Eldon, Iowa). I have posted many, many pictures on that page over … Read more
I had the nicest, funniest surprise yesterday when a pie class participant, Linda, showed up bearing a gift for me. Behold, her barely used bottle of India Hicks Island Living perfume. I laughed — and she laughed — because without saying a word, I knew she had read my recent blog post about my India … Read more
I live in the country, right next to a cornfield, in a very old house, so it is inevitable that at some point I would encounter the typical country house nuisance: mice. When I moved in 2 and ½ years ago the house had been vacant for several years. Vacant except for mice, at least … Read more
Rural Iowa in January. The sky may be blue, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still get the blues. Between the post-Newtown letdown after our manic pie-making/pie-sharing cross-country journey, the bitter cold Iowa weather, the isolation of winter and my inability to get my ass moving on my next book, all this is conspiring to … Read more
I’m having lunch with my friend Carolyn tomorrow. Carolyn volunteered many, many hours last summer for my Pitchfork Pie Stand. She would come over on Thursday evenings and we would weigh and roll out pie dough, slice lemons (not her favorite job, especially picking out all those seeds, but she did it anyway), cut strips … Read more