cooking failures – Orangette https://orangette.net Fri, 25 Dec 2015 03:21:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 That itch https://orangette.net/2015/02/that-itch/ https://orangette.net/2015/02/that-itch/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2015 23:45:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/that-itch I woke up this morning with that itchy feeling I get when I’ve gone too long without writing. I have a writer friend who once told me that she didn’t feel right if she wasn’t writing regularly, that she woke up each morning needing to write, and until very recently, I didn’t really believe her, because it never felt that straightforward to me. (I also wanted, uh, just a little bit, to reach out and strangle her with my bare hands; she made writing sound so easy.) I never felt that kind of imperative to be a writer – or, really, to be anything in particular. Writing sneaked up on me. But now that I’ve been at it for a…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2015/02/that-itch/feed/ 46 It still surprises me https://orangette.net/2011/08/it-still-surprises-me/ https://orangette.net/2011/08/it-still-surprises-me/#comments Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:45:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2011/08/14/it-still-surprises-me So. I think it would be fair to say that your comments on my last post made me very, very happy. It feels much less lonely in here, and I have you to thank for that. More than anything, I just love that we can talk about this kind of stuff. When I first started writing here, more than seven(!) years ago now, I had no idea where this weird blog thing of mine would go. It still surprises me. I’m glad you’re here, and I’m glad I am, too. It also surprises me how many totally so-so recipes I tried last week. Absolutely nothing worth telling you about. So-so chicken, so-so apricots, so-so beans. And then, while I was…

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