Stain the Water Clear: A Collection of Rural Pen and Yankee Doodlin' Columns, 1993-2002iUniverse, 13.01.2003 - 218 Seiten For years, readers of Luanne Austins Rural Pen column in the Daily News-Record have been asking for a compilation of her work. Here it is. Stain the Water Clear is a collection spanning 10 years. Her first Southern Yankee writings focused on the transplanted life of a young woman who had moved from her native New York to the South. Yankee Doodlin' continued on this theme, but expanded to family life, relationships and meditations on life. Finally, the Rural Pen pieces are those of a writer who has found her voice, addressing a range of topics, from politics to religion, to love and womens issues, to meditations on nature and spirituality .The name of the column and this book come from William Blakes Songs of Innocence: And I made a rural pen, And I staind the water clear |
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... do tend a small garden. I don't can anything. And when the mood strikes, I bake bread in the gas oven and scarf them down with (store—bought) butter. From Streetwise to Countrywise To the novice, making one's way Yankee Doodlin ' 5.
... do tend a small garden. I don't can anything. And when the mood strikes, I bake bread in the gas oven and scarf them down with (store—bought) butter. From Streetwise to Countrywise To the novice, making one's way Yankee Doodlin ' 5.
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... oven. The phone rang. It was the elementary school, saying my grandson had a stomachache and a low fever. I had to go get him. On my way out the door I asked, “Rachel, can you rotate the layers in the oven in about five minutes and take ...
... oven. The phone rang. It was the elementary school, saying my grandson had a stomachache and a low fever. I had to go get him. On my way out the door I asked, “Rachel, can you rotate the layers in the oven in about five minutes and take ...
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... oven at 400 degrees?” “No problem,” said Rachel. We had a lovely ride. When I walked back in the house at 4:40 p.m., the chicken was still on the counter. I said nothing, just stuck it in a pan and shoved it in the oven. Soon the oven ...
... oven at 400 degrees?” “No problem,” said Rachel. We had a lovely ride. When I walked back in the house at 4:40 p.m., the chicken was still on the counter. I said nothing, just stuck it in a pan and shoved it in the oven. Soon the oven ...
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... oven. The second was often to give away. So our home was filled with the smell of bread baking twice a week. I bought grains—whole wheat flour, unbleached white flour and oats—in 50 pound bags through a food co-op. During this season of ...
... oven. The second was often to give away. So our home was filled with the smell of bread baking twice a week. I bought grains—whole wheat flour, unbleached white flour and oats—in 50 pound bags through a food co-op. During this season of ...
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... oven. When we lived in the hollow, heating the oven was an art in itself, seein's how it was a wood cook stove. That's right. Our house in the hollow came with a wood cook stove in the kitchen, and it was great for baking bread. The ...
... oven. When we lived in the hollow, heating the oven was an art in itself, seein's how it was a wood cook stove. That's right. Our house in the hollow came with a wood cook stove in the kitchen, and it was great for baking bread. The ...
Inhalt
19 | |
Of Humans and Being | 51 |
Christmas | 69 |
Things We Have Passed | 87 |
Am I in Sync? | 113 |
Body Language | 145 |
Through Darkness Up to God | 175 |
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