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This Swedish Pancake recipe was on our fridge (on yellow legal paper) my entire childhood– so that if we had a babysitter Saturday night...

“…it was really that they could not make their own images.” 🤯💛 This is so wonderfully clear– I love teaching...

Occam’s Razor says simplest is best. Occam’s razor (or Ockham’s razor) is a principle from philosophy. Suppose there exist two...

The Harry Potter/Magicians premise got me to click yesterday during housekeeping at the B+B. The marvelous story got me asking why I have...

I was feeling some drama (Sadness? Stress? Overstimulation?) about asking for something professionally. So I scrolled through Seth...

Walking our new dog has brought lots of good moments: Being up and outside in the morning (you can’t sleep in with a playful pup hopping...

Jay and I applied for the same conference (coming up this weekend). He was invited, I wasn’t, and today I’m feeling sad about it, as if...

How to draw my cat, Per. I just realized that for me, drawings are symbols / touchstones / hieroglyphs– they don’t tell all of the story,...

A friend just joined a writing group an mentioned that feedback can feel so personal. Here’s what I told her: Writing groups can be so...

I’m so excited to have finally, finally (but surely not for the last time) convinced myself that simpler is better. That I do not need to...

Well, thanks! Nice words about SVEA at a recent gig. We’ll be at WTIP’s Radio Waves Music Festival this Saturday at 11:40am, and at North...

Last winter I saw a photo of these two fabulous ladies swimming in Superior… in January. I said, “I need a wetsuit!,” and next thing you...

I’ve been thinking about my 11-year-old self a lot lately. As I planned my 37th birthday party, as she always does, 11-year-old Rose...

There’s more to gardening than planting flowers. You can start seeds. You can divide and transplant. But you have to weed, or cover the...

I’ve never liked “The Ant and the Grasshopper.” I hated that the fable was pro-hard-working, no-time-for-fun-or-art ant. I identified...

Compliments aren’t the goal. They aren’t even proof that something good happened. Compliments just show the audience’s awareness of what...

If you’re stuck on a story, or just want to mix things up, try making a Story Starter Grab Bag. You can be a Plotter or a Pantser (or...

You are good. You are enough. Don’t worry about how everyone in your town or your school does it. You have great ideas— you must follow...

When I was a kid, Roald Dahl was my favorite author. I loved “James and the Giant Peach,” and thought of it every time we flew to England...

It turns out that I can sing. I mean I can do some operatic Edith Piaf thing. At SVEA rehearsal last week I was goofing around and did a...