Why It Pays to Resist Your ‘Inner Pig Dog’
Redondo Beach, 23 April 2015, Me with local resident Nina and Aussie adventurer Rob I had one of those days today, the kind where I had to fight off my resistance to getting out of the house. I had to take my Mini in for its third service in three weeks, but what I really […]
World Piece: Soundtrack for a Round-the-World Journey
Preparing for a trip around the world requires a little planning. Okay, a lot of planning. And I don’t love planning. I’m more the type to just wing it. I usually get on a plane without ever having glanced at a guidebook and trust that I’ll find my way. In all my years of traveling […]
WORLD PIECE: Announcing my global pie-making mission!
The Concept On June 2nd, I will be embarking on a round-the-world journey I’m calling “World Piece.” I came up with this idea after writing my memoir, “Making Piece: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Pie,” as a way to extend the theme of making and sharing pie with others to make the world a […]
The Winners of the Ms. American Pie Cookbook Giveaway
And the winners of the three Ms. American Pie cookbooks are…. 1. Larry’s Photos2. Karen Wirima3. Jane Adams Winners, please email me with your contact details. beth (at) theworldneedsmorepie (dot) com CONGRATS! And if you didn’t win, I’ll do another giveaway in a few months. But you can always buy the book — available everywhere […]
Win a copy of Ms. American Pie!
To celebrate National Pi Day, which was 2 days ago, and, well, “just because,” we’re giving away THREE copies of my cookbook, “Ms. American Pie.” And it’s ridiculously easy to win. Just write your name in the comment field below. Cut off time for entering is Friday, March 20 at Noon PT (3PM ET). Check […]
No More Excuses: Make Your Own D*amn Movie
I have been resistant to learning about video editing for a long time, always making the excuse that I was a writer not a filmmaker. But I am prying my eyelids open to view a whole new world of possibilities just by acquiring a few video editing skills. There have been too many signs to […]
The Shoes of Palos Verdes
Is this Hawaii? No, it’s Palos Verdes (California). My new neighborhood. I read an essay about 15 years ago titled “The Shoes of Kilimanjaro” by Cameron Burns. In the story he describes his climb up the towering volcano in Tanzania and how he felt bad for the guides whom he assumed were so poor they […]
Some Inspiration for National Pie Day
Guideposts magazine asked me to write an essay for their website about National Pie Day. I was somewhat reluctant to do it — I had been feeling a little blue about life, a little lonely, and I was busy working on my next memoir (about my misadventures living in the American Gothic House.) But I […]
Finding Forgiveness in the Face of a Christmas Tragedy
Death is not a fun or festive topic to bring up at the holidays, but death—and sometimes tragedy—does not elude us regardless of the season. Two years ago I drove my RV to Newtown, Connecticut to make and deliver homemade pies to the grieving community after the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Twenty-six […]
Finding Solace in Solitaire
I’ve never been a fan of card games. It’s just not my thing to sit at a table and dole out little rectangular pieces of coated paper with numbers and symbols and faces of royalty printed on them. It seems pointless, a waste of precious time that could be—should be—spent doing something productive, like exercising […]