First, pick the huckleberries.
Huckleberries have not been successfully tamed and are not grown commercially. You can’t pop into Safeway and pick up a can of Wyman’s huckleberries. So, the first step in making muffins is to find a patch of wild huckleberries.
Some years ago my friend Carol introduced […]
I don’t read reading anymore; I read writing.
I often catch myself reading as a copy editor, finely attuned to the typo, the esoteric grammatical error, the usage “infelicity.” Since I began trying to do some writing myself and participating in a writing class, I not only read my own work more critically, but I also […]
I asked the owner of my guesthouse about this word I kept hearing that sounded like "grew-et-see."
"Oh, that means ‘hi’ in Swiss German," he said. "Literally, ‘I greet you.’ Spell it g-r-u with an umlaut-e-z-i."
Grüezi. Everyone said grüezi. Old people, youngsters, lone hikers, merry groups. As they passed me on […]