Showing Up

That's the theme from my Get to Work Book for March. It bears keeping in mind.

Today I continued some kitchen work - canning trotter gear and chicken stock, prepping pork fat for lardo, rendering the last of the lard and making some "cracklings" aka pork rinds or fried pork fat. Not a low calorie day, but a little goes a long way. This is all part of what I'm calling the "freezer reclamation" project. I don't know about you, but our freezers (we have a small chest freezer in the basement) are almost always full, and often we have no idea what's in there. It's good to get things out of the freezer and onto the shelves.

Things are starting to get back to routine after our week away. It's amazing how seven or eight days away can almost entirely erase the rhythms you had before, but I feel like mine are pretty well established now, which is quite satisfying. Even this blog post - Monday is my usual day to post. It just makes it easier.

Also, I'm pleased to announce that one of my stories was a finalist for the Breakwater Review Fiction Prize. You can read it here.

Showing up, and moving forward! Have a great week.

Story Time

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Part of my identity is as a writer, and I'm partial to the short story form although clearly there's a bit of a love of creative nonfiction as well.  A few years ago a friend suggested I share some of my short stories on my blog, and finally I'm ready to do so.  So from time to time, I'll post a short story that I've written.  Hope you enjoy!

 

Perfection

You have small bright teeth; they form a constellation in your mouth.

         I try to get at them, to loosen the lips with pretty words or force.  But you like to keep them from me; you like to control their appearances, flashing them at unexpected moments, leaving me dizzy.

         I long to pry your mouth open to find the plush soft tongue and lay my head there looking at the stars.

Story Online

I'm very pleased to announce that my short story, Consolation, has been published online by Juked.  You can find it here.