"Give a Piece a Chance." — Books. Blog. Pie Classes. And a Pinch of Activism.
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 … Read more
One week ago today I drove to Chicago, to spend the weekend participating in National Pie Day activities. Even though this “pie holiday” should have been as exciting to me as, say, Thanksgiving—after all, pie is “my thing”—it was hard to get enthused about extracting myself from the comfort of my house to make the … Read more