Today & manana: dias de los muertos plus a pan de muertos recipe!
Curious about dia de los muertos? Want to make some Day of the Dead Bread aka pan de muertos but need a recipe?
What follows is one of my very first blog posts from November 2007; it will answer both of your questions–and give you some links to poems to read as well including 3:15 poem “If I Died at 55” which is in my new poetry collection Middle of the Night Poems From Daughter to Mother :: Mother to Son (available NOW in chapbook form; available in December bound from en theos press).
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Happy Halloween! What are you dressing up as?
If you’re looking for an easy dish to bring to a holiday gathering and wonder what wine to match, wonder no more!
Last night I made this simple yet delicious pumpkin soup while we worked on our son’s dragon costume and even though I had my doubts, it paired wonderfully with a 2007 Ghost Pines Merlot. The recipe follows along with more tasting notes.
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The Women’s Conference 2010: waiting & watching
While I did get my new poetry book into the hands of Maria Shriver, nothing went as I thought it would at the 2010 Women’s Conference…
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So “How Do I Look?” (via The Write Alley)
You wake up one day blonde, the next day a brunette…life is full of surprises–you just never know what to expect and you just have to roll with it it seems. This blog post talks about a few surprises from yesterday’s Women’s Conference hosted by Maria Shriver in Long Beach California.
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From a Scary Smelly Skeleton Pirate: Happy Halloween 2010!
I am a scary smelly skeleton pirate!
I wonder where the treasure is
I hear black rusty shooting fire cannonballs
and swords slapping
I see other English ships to get their treasure
I want treasure, a golden compass, and a gold ring
I am a scary smelly skeleton pirate!
I pretend to play swords with you
I feel my bones cracking
I touch the shark’s teeth
I worry about my pirate ship
and how it will disappear one day
I cry when my boat tips upside down
I am a scary smelly skeleton pirate!
I understand that I know that you can be killed
I say aye aye matey, I believe in ghosts
I never dream about black treasure
I try not to kill my pet octopus
I hope to be free
I am a scary smelly skeleton pirate
Written by my son Reed when he was in kindergarten…along with some of his classmates! Here we are when he was in preschool–he’s a skeleton and I’m Ms Frizzle from the Magic School.
He and I made the following video in 2008 as well…he was 4, almost 5:
“Middle of the Night” Arrives!
Today while I was getting fitted for the outfit I will be wearing for the Style Network makeover Monday at the Women’s Conference and buying a few things to wear there too, two different print shops were working hard printing up materials for me to bring: one was putting together a special edition chapbook of my 3:15 experiment poetry collection (due mid-December 2010) while the other printed bookmarks and business cards. Very exciting! Here’s more details about the book along with the covers (yes, covers–plural!)
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Busy Busy Busy Busy! Ye olde Art Predator has been on the go! The limited edition version of my new poetry book is FINALLY off to one printer (blog post on that next!) while my bookmarks and business cards are at another printer! Read about it and see images in the blog post over at The Write Alley.
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Art Predator is off to another conference: this time, the HUGE Women’s Conference in Long Beach, California. And for this one, I’m finally getting a poetry collection together, thanks to Tod McCoy at en theos press!
Check it out!
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Here’s another great guest blogger post from Ron Wells, resident movie and music critic! Thank you Ron, for your contributions to this blog! I look forward to catching the film myself and comparing notes!
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en theos press: “Middle of the Night Poems From Daughter to Mother :: Mother to Son”
the stars fill the sky
whether we notice them or not
so much better for us
if we do3:15am August 13, 2010
Pumice Flat Campground, CA
Here’s the complete poem.
After many years of talking about it, I am finally going to release a collection of my 3:15 Experiment Poetry.
No, it’s not the infamous Love and Terror at 3:15am manuscript that I’ve been working on since I started the experiment in 2001.
This 3:15 Experiment collection of poems Middle of the Night Poems From Daughter to Mother :: Mother to Son had its impetus from two recent events: my mom’s death the day before the 2010 3:15 Experiment commenced and my selection for a makeover and to speak at this year’s Women’s Conference at the Long Beach Convention Center next Monday night October 25, 2010.
Because the poems from summer 2010 didn’t fit into Love and Terror thematically, and because the Women’s Conference would connect me with many many women who would relate to and appreciate this collection, the last few weeks have been very busy with selecting, editing, organizing and proofreading the manuscript Middle of the Night Poems From Daughter to Mother :: Mother to Son which is being published by en theos press (Seattle) which also published between sleeps: poems from the 3:15 experiment 1993-2005 which Danika Dinsmore and I edited.
Pictured is a photograph by Alan Sailer which we are using for the cover. You can order yours now from en theos press! More news soon!
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