Tag: Kirstin Chen

• Book Review: When the Moon Turns Blue by Pamela Terry

  “You can take the girl out of the South, but you can’t take the South out of the girl.” The older I get, the more I identify with this old saying.  I’m a Southern girl, born and raised in Louisiana, but have now lived in Maryland (NOT the South, no matter what you Yankees say…

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  October 12, 2022

  books, Essay

  Bury What We Cannot Take, debut novel, Georgia, Kim Wright, Kirstin Chen, NetGalley, Pamela Terry, Paul Bunyan operetta, racism, sophomore novel, Southerner, Soy Sauce for Beginners, The Sweet Taste of Muscadines, W. H. Auden, When the Moon Turns Blue

• Travel for Beginners

  I know almost nothing about soy sauce. I know I like to dip my sushi rolls into it and I know that the colored tops of the soy sauce bottles on the tables in Asian restaurants denote whether the soy sauce is regular (red) or low sodium (green). I know it is one of the…

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  February 7, 2016

  Essay

  A Moveable Feast, A Week in Winter, Africa, Asia, Asian, Bangladesh, Baton Rouge, Beryl Markham, British, Circling the Sun, Ernest Hemingway, Europe, Hadley Richardson, Ireland, Irish, Kenya, Kirstin Chen, Louisiana, Maeve Binchy, Memphis, Monroe, Nell Freudenberger, New Orleans, Paula McLain, pub, reading, Singapore, soy sauce, Soy Sauce for Beginners, St. Jude Children’s Hospital, The Newlyweds, The Paris Wife

• Scent: Message Received

  Thanks to winter storm Jonas, a/k/a #Blizzard2016, I had an unexpected “winter break” from teaching, and I must say I have really enjoyed my #snowcation. Sandwiched nicely between my Christmas break and my Easter break, this one came with no expectations of shopping or meal planning. With my six school days I did some school…

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  January 31, 2016

  Essay

  Al Di La, Aromatic Elixir, bread, Chris Grabenstein, Cinnabar, Clinique, crochet, Estee Lauder, figs, Freeport Sulphur Company, Gumbo, Janet Evanovich, Jonas, Katrina, king cake, Kirstin Chen, knitting, library, make-up, Mardi Gras, marmalade, Mississippi River, perfume, po-boy, Port Sulphur, Rachel Carson, reading, roux, satsuma, snowcation, Soy Sauce for Beginners, sulphur