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Shack, Early Winter
Oh my is it December already? I never posted by November shack pictures. And really, how will you survive without your monthly update on the state of the abandoned shack near my campus? What has become of all that beautiful golden wheat? It got plowed under, is what. It’s a sort of grim makeover for [… Read More]
Food Post, Part II
Wow I am so far behind in blogging. I blame school. I never even finished talking about Moscow junkfood. And how could I fail to share my love of Hawg’s Grill? I’ve walked by this little pork shack a million times, and I can tell you that the worst thing about it is its hours: [… Read More]
Food Post!
Moscow junk food I have consumed and loved. First up, ZIPS! I first fell in love with Zips Drive-In because of the exciting retro signage and twinkly lights all around the outside. But I also came to appreciate their burgers and shakes. I’ve had pumpkin and amaretto so far (that’s two separate incidents, not blended), [… Read More]
Haunted Palouse
I had weird dreams last night about my little college town, mixing elements of Halloween and Homecoming… not sure which is scarier. The WSU campus looks pretty tame and unspooky, for the most part, but a while ago I stumbled across this story on the school website: In May 1971, WSU custodians were cleaning the [… Read More]
Bears!
Having coffee with a friend a couple of weeks ago, and she asked me why I decided to move out here. Well, for my program, of course, plus the scenery, the weather… “And bears,” I told her. “I love bears.” “Oh, really! So you know all about the grizzly preserve just up the hill from [… Read More]
Old European
Still playing catch up… I’ve been wanting to go to The Old European since before I moved to Pullman. Seriously, google maps threw it at me one day while I was in Providence, and I got all excited. It was probably the presence of lingonberries on the menu that did it, making nostalgic for Scandinavia. [… Read More]
Abandoned Shack, Partly Cloudy
Oh, my poor, neglected blog. Would you believe that they actually give us a fair amount of work here? This past week should go down in history… Before it even began, I had dubbed it “Hell Week” thanks to a week-long workshop with Distinguished Visiting Writer Steve Almond, held every evening for two and a [… Read More]
Kamiak Butte
Turned in my new story. And actually, I’m heading out to turn the same story in again, this time as a writing sample to get into a class taught by Steve Almond. I’m pretty excited about it (the class, not the story. I have mixed feelings about the story.). So now maybe I have a [… Read More]
Big, Two-Hearted River
Further updates from the University of Idaho Hemingway Festival… Last night I went to hear Michael Dahlie, assorted U of I faculty, and a Hemingway scholar discuss their favorite Hemingway stories. It was a lively discussion, but one point they kept returning to was the whole “iceberg theory” of fiction… Hemingway’s idea that you can [… Read More]
In Search of Cider
It seems it was only a few days ago that I was dreading my morning walk to the bus, the 85 degree weather guaranteeing my shirt would be unattractively stuck to my back by the time I got to class. Then this morning I awaken to my husband fiddling with the heaters – fall is [… Read More]