Sitemap - 2025 - Poor Man's Feast

where there once were roses

to travel as a minimalist

You can’t impose order where nature is concerned*

On these precious fragments, I have planted a stony garden*

vacationing while being a caregiver.

we are not in pieces.

why gardening, and why now?

committing to the asparagus

The Intrusion.

please stop and take a breath, please

an unbreakable cord to everything else

A Conversation with Debbie Millman

"How many women's stories are not being told because they have been warned against it?"

remembering an Italian soup on a cold spring day

the quiet terror of keeping a journal

I have three dates with The Oldster lady!

and now I must write about Fergus.

the weight of narcissism

when we convene again to understand the world

who you were back then

the broken-heart diet, REDUX

you own everything that happened to you*

confessing to our gadgets

have you given yourself permission?

"do I have to show other people my work before publishing it?"

the distraction of grief.

the veil between sustenance and violence

Don't build your house on sand

making the choice to keep creating

Elissa Altman on Permission to Breathe

take the candlesticks and go

help I'm eating like a teenage boy

the fish please, plain-broiled, with the sauce on the side.

Permission and the importance of telling your story now.

intention

is cruelty addictive?

stepping into the caim

The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #40: Elissa Altman

the broken-heart diet

"do I have to show other people my work before publishing it?"

the stories we own, and the stories we don't

please give yourself permission