Katherine Sharpe is a writer living in Brooklyn. Read more about her here.
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Earlier this week I sent off two chapter drafts, and since then I’ve been taking a little elusive ‘me-time.’ Actually, I was supposed to get back to work this morning, but I’ve been feeling an itch lately to blog. I don’t know why. Is it an itch to remember how to write something that is [...]
When I get up to the seventh floor of the Hotel Fort Des Moines, I inhale and think, “grandma’s house.” Not my grandma, though not unlike my grandma—it’s the essence of grandparents: dark, out-of-date colors and most of all that smell, like baby powder, Neutrogena hand soap, and something else—is it aging wallpaper paste? It’s [...]
Thursday evening, 8:25 p.m. A’s beau came up from Virginia for the weekend. He is a good guest. Being a good guest is an underrated, or under-discussed, art in itself. On the table: beer cocktails, in this case Guinness with cassis lambic. Not sure it was a brilliant combination, but it’s fun to sit around [...]
Cabbage With Apples ~adapted from How to Cook Everything, by Mark Bittman 2 tablespoons butter one small/medium green cabbage two apples dash of cloves half a cup of stock or white wine a teaspoon of cherry jam s & p fresh lemon juice Chop the cabbage and the apples into pieces that you like. Melt [...]
I keep forgetting to take pictures of my food. Maybe that means I am growing out of a ridiculous habit. Or maybe it only means that the food is more delicious, now, too delicious to stop and photograph. There was lots of watercress left over from the tea party last week, so I made a [...]
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