washington state – Orangette https://orangette.net Fri, 15 Jan 2016 22:40:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 August 18 https://orangette.net/2014/08/august-18/ https://orangette.net/2014/08/august-18/#comments Tue, 19 Aug 2014 00:51:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/august-18 A couple of weekends ago, we packed up the better part of the restaurant kitchen, crammed it in the back of a pick-up, and drove two and a half hours east to cook an all-day anniversary party for a pair of longtime Delancey regulars. We rented a big house along the Wenatchee River, about ten minutes from the property where the party was held, and we brought as many people as we could fit inside, including a set of 8-month-old twins and one almost-two-year-old June. If you’ve ever been to Leavenworth in the summertime, you will remember how hot it gets. It hit 100 that weekend, and no one had air conditioning. The flies were out and biting. But the…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2014/08/august-18/feed/ 47 July 6 https://orangette.net/2014/07/july-6/ https://orangette.net/2014/07/july-6/#comments Mon, 07 Jul 2014 06:04:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2014/07/07/july-6 We spent half of last week on Lopez Island, staying with friends at the home of friends-of-friends, breaking in our sun hats, making buildings out of driftwood, wearing ourselves out so well that we were in bed before the light was gone, getting reacquainted with summer. Despite the fact that I seem to have filled my life with a lot of work and obligations and businesses and whatnot, I am not someone who enjoys feeling busy. I do not like to feel busy at all. I also do not like to set goals. But my goal this summer is to have a lot of days like the ones we had on Lopez, summer days like the ones I had as…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2014/07/july-6/feed/ 51 June 1 https://orangette.net/2014/06/june-1/ https://orangette.net/2014/06/june-1/#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2014 05:17:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2014/06/02/june-1 I’d been planning to put up a post tonight about some meatballs that June has been into lately (MEAT! MEAT! she yells; I think you can imagine it). They’re delicious, served in broth with peas and grated Parmesan, ugly but molto Italian. But then, possibly because it is June 1st, the sun came out and the day got hot, and meatballs felt very wrong. Instead, first thing this morning, I texted a friend to propose a late afternoon trip to the beach with a picnic dinner for our two babies, who are really now toddlers. And then Brandon and I ran into a couple of new friends and their two children at the farmers’ market, so I invited them, too.…

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]]> https://orangette.net/2014/06/june-1/feed/ 48 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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