Poor Man's Feast

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an unbreakable cord to everything else
Planting Your Peas and Minding the Moon [with RECIPE]
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A Conversation with Debbie Millman
In Celebration of Her New Book, Love Letter to a Garden
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"How many women's stories are not being told because they have been warned against it?"
Talking life, love, your mother lying about your age and learning to give yourself permission, with Elissa Altman
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remembering an Italian soup on a cold spring day
On the Perils of Cooking From Memory [RECIPE]
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the quiet terror of keeping a journal
On the Dark Underbelly of Everyone's Favorite Creative Practice
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I have three dates with The Oldster lady!
On Book Tour with Permission....
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and now I must write about Fergus.
On Being Rescued By An Older Dog
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the weight of narcissism
On Surviving Decades of NPD and How I Learned Its Language
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March 2025

when we convene again to understand the world
On Walking, and Finding Beauty in a Time of Trouble
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who you were back then
On Memoir, and Remembering My Former Me
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the broken-heart diet, REDUX
On Cooking When You're STILL Too Enraged to Eat
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you own everything that happened to you*
My Conversation with Anne Lamott about Permission
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