hedgebrook – Orangette https://orangette.net Sat, 13 Feb 2016 00:07:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 January 15 https://orangette.net/2016/01/9186/ https://orangette.net/2016/01/9186/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2016 23:06:10 +0000 http://orangette.net/?p=9186 I’ve spent half of the past week sitting on the couch with a cold-y, not-at-school three-year-old, attempting to work while holding my neck cocked to the right at a 45-degree angle because she wants to hold a hank of my hair and smell it while she watches Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood. We’ve all three got whatever’s been going around, the cough and constant need for Kleenex and now, naturally, a sore neck. It could always be worse, I remind myself; it could be the stomach flu. My hair could be shorter. I could, yet again, have that one Daniel Tiger song stuck in my head. After somehow forgetting about it for a couple of months, I made a fresh batch of Granola…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2016/01/9186/feed/ 37 The days are twice as long https://orangette.net/2013/10/the-days-are-twice-as-long/ https://orangette.net/2013/10/the-days-are-twice-as-long/#comments Thu, 17 Oct 2013 10:17:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2013/10/17/the-days-are-twice-as-long This time last week, I was in a wood stove-heated cottage with no Internet, no telephone, and no television, reading my sixth New Yorker of the day. I am fully caught up with The New Yorker. (!) (!!)  Those words may never again be assembled in that order by me, or by anyone, ever. Actually, I should already switch tenses: I was caught up with The New Yorker. Briefly. Past tense. Last week, I had the pleasure of spending two nights at Hedgebrook, a nonprofit retreat for women writers, located on Whidbey Island. It’s an incredible place: just six one-room cabins, a cottage, a farmhouse, a garden, and a couple of woodsheds on 48 acres, dedicated solely giving women the time, space,…

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