My TEDx Des Moines Women Talk is Now Online
In December I had the privilege of giving a TEDx talk in Des Moines, Iowa. I’ve given many speeches over the past few years, but this one was special to me. If you’re familiar with TED and its independently organized TEDx events, then you know what I mean. TED stands for technology, entertainment and design, […]
Hip Hop Pie Bakers and LA Lakers
I’ve been away from Eldon for a few months now. I’m making good on my word that I would not spend another winter in Iowa. I have to remind myself of that promise every so often because in spite of enjoying the record-breaking summer-like weather of Southern California (what a luxury to wear flip flops […]
Author Sarah Turnbull Resurfaces At Last
In June 2003, I moved to Stuttgart, Germany to marry a smart and sexy automotive engineer, Marcus. It was the year Europe had record-breaking triple-digit temperatures. One of the first German words I learned, a word that still sticks with me the way the layers of sweat did that summer, was Hitzewelle. Heat wave. I […]
Pie Discussion on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry Show
Did you miss the pie episode of the Melissa Harris Perry Show on MSNBC? No worries. The videos can be seen online. It was a fun experience to part of the panel discussion, even if I was joining in remotely from a studio in Chicago. Besides the host, Melissa Harris Perry, the panel was made up […]
The World Needs More…Meat?!
Empanadas are pie too.Note the caipirinha cocktail to the upper left.And note the “Yes Please” card lower right. That meansyou want more meat. What do you do when you’ve been dating a vegetarian who has conditioned you to live without meat in your diet and a dear friend you haven’t seen in over a year […]
The Liberation Artist
I was very flattered to be interviewed this week by a sweet and humble blog called The Liberation Artist. I love what its creator, Laura Saba, is doing, what she believes in, and what she is promoting: a life lived outside the status quo, free from fear and hesitation. I don’t know that I completely […]
Wuz Up Wit Dat Hip Hop Pie Class?
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 […]
India Hicks Envy: Part 2
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 […]
Just Another Part of Country Living
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 […]
India Hicks Envy
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 […]