the breakfast book – Orangette https://orangette.net Thu, 07 Jan 2016 23:25:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 They wake me up https://orangette.net/2011/03/they-wake-me-up/ https://orangette.net/2011/03/they-wake-me-up/#comments Fri, 04 Mar 2011 08:53:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/they-wake-me-up Lately we’ve had a lot of friends passing through, lots of changes of sheets on the guest bed. Sam has been around a bit. Ben, our friend who moved here a couple of years ago but was quickly wooed away by work, is doing a short-term gig nearby and comes around on his days off. And Ryan, who also lived here briefly and was wooed away, is flying in tonight for a visit. The bourbon in the bottle is two fingers lower than it was last week, and the apartment feels nice, lived-in. Most days, days when we don’t have house guests, I spend long stretches of time alone, working. I like the quiet. I don’t need a lot of…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2011/03/they-wake-me-up/feed/ 130 Yes, already https://orangette.net/2011/01/yes-already/ https://orangette.net/2011/01/yes-already/#comments Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:20:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/yes-already Well. The good news is that I’m making headway in my book proposal. I was working on it at a cafe on Saturday afternoon, and I could actually see it taking shape, right there in front of me. I love that feeling. I was absolutely elated. I lost all sense of time. I was in it up to my eyebrows. And I must have looked it, too, because as I was packing up to leave, the girl sitting next to me commented politely that I must have gotten some very good work done, because I was staring at my computer so intensely. And I decided that from now on, I should work only in the privacy of my home, so…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2011/01/yes-already/feed/ 105 And try to be cheerful https://orangette.net/2011/01/and-try-to-be-cheerful/ https://orangette.net/2011/01/and-try-to-be-cheerful/#comments Sun, 16 Jan 2011 06:56:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/and-try-to-be-cheerful Okay. This year, I’ve decided, is going to be the year of The Breakfast Book. I’m allergic to resolutions, so let’s not use that word. Let’s just say that if I do nothing else in 2011, I would like to spend more time with one of the worthiest books on my shelf, one that has never done me wrong, one authored by she of the famous yeasted waffle, the esteemed Ms. Marion Cunningham. There is no one I trust more on the matter of breakfast. There is also no one else that I know of who has managed to wedge a treatise on manners into a chapter on quick breads. Witness a selection from “Breakfast Table Civility and Deportment” (page…

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