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Owl Be Home For Christmas
Vintage Scots Christmas recipes: “Good Fare Christmas”
From the Young Wizards universe: an update
Irish life: The things you don’t discuss, Halloween...
Q&A: Why is my Malt-O-Meal lumpy and how...
From the Baking-While-You-Write Department: Spicy Apple Pie
Peter Morwood on Moroccan preserved lemons
Greek mythology, feminist reclamation of lost/ancient tradition, and...
Changes coming at YoungWizards.com: your opinion(s) solicited
Outlining: one writer’s approach
A project in progress: translating “La Patissière des...
Pulling The Lever
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2021 Hugo nomination eligibility: the Young Wizards series

by Diane Duane January 26, 2021

Maluns

by Diane Duane December 15, 2020

Owl Be Home For Christmas

by Diane Duane November 27, 2020

Vintage Scots Christmas recipes: “Good Fare Christmas”

by Diane Duane November 23, 2020

From the Young Wizards universe: an update

by Diane Duane November 6, 2020

Irish life: The things you don’t discuss, Halloween Edition

by Diane Duane October 30, 2020

Q&A: Why is my Malt-O-Meal lumpy and how can I fix it?

by Diane Duane October 28, 2020

From the Baking-While-You-Write Department: Spicy Apple Pie

by Diane Duane October 16, 2020

Peter Morwood on Moroccan preserved lemons

by Diane Duane September 26, 2020

Greek mythology, feminist reclamation of lost/ancient tradition, and an interface issue: or,...

by Diane Duane September 13, 2020

Changes coming at YoungWizards.com: your opinion(s) solicited

by Diane Duane August 18, 2020

Outlining: one writer’s approach

by Diane Duane July 25, 2020
The newest character in the Young Wizards universe: "Rocky" the Owl
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2021 Hugo nomination eligibility: the Young Wizards series

by Diane Duane January 26, 2021
January 26, 2021

So it’s once more that time of year when nominations open up for the World Science Fiction Society’s Hugo Awards (for Discon III later this year), and it turns out…

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Maluns
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Maluns

by Diane Duane December 15, 2020
December 15, 2020

It’s a country dish; a poor people’s dish; a farmer’s hasty breakfast or stopgap luncheon. And (to those who know about it) it instantly recalls the remote Alpine region where…

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Owl Be Home For Christmas

by Diane Duane November 27, 2020
November 27, 2020

ETA: Owl Be Home For Christmas is now complete! You can purchase it here: Owl Be Home For Christmas at Ebooks Direct …Sometimes work and life come at you fast,…

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Vintage Scots Christmas recipes: “Good Fare Christmas”

by Diane Duane November 23, 2020
November 23, 2020

It occurred to me that it’d be smart to import this post from EuropeanCuisines.com, it being the time of year to think about such things. Some years back, EuroCuisineLady and…

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From the Young Wizards universe: an update

by Diane Duane November 6, 2020
November 6, 2020

Let me start by thanking everybody who saw the previous posting  discussing the changes to come to the YoungWizards.com domain, and who took the time to get back to me…

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Irish life: The things you don’t discuss, Halloween Edition

by Diane Duane October 30, 2020
October 30, 2020

This came up on Tumblr some years back, at the end of a lively thread that featured this exchange: At which point I could only add the following (which comes…

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Lumpy Malt-O-Meal
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Q&A: Why is my Malt-O-Meal lumpy and how can I fix it?

by Diane Duane October 28, 2020
October 28, 2020

So, a little background here first. Though I was born and raised in the US, I live in Ireland. If there’s one thing about Ireland that you learn pretty quickly,…

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Spicy Apple Pie
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From the Baking-While-You-Write Department: Spicy Apple Pie

by Diane Duane October 16, 2020
October 16, 2020

The following recipe was improvised on the fly on the evening of October 16, 2020, and unfolded on Twitter. I don’t allow my tweets to be unrolled (because the companies…

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Lemons in the souk
Food, restaurants and cooking

Peter Morwood on Moroccan preserved lemons

by Diane Duane September 26, 2020
September 26, 2020

Via the Man Upstairs: Here are half a dozen recipes and a few observations. I can provide Indian lime pickle recipes as well if there’s a real glut of fruit;…

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Greek mythology, feminist reclamation of lost/ancient tradition, and an interface issue: or, The Thing I Got So Cranky About The Other Day

by Diane Duane September 13, 2020
September 13, 2020

(The other day being April 2, 2014. This post is ported in from Tumblr — I’m in the process of moving some longer posts from there to here, where they…

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Changes coming at YoungWizards.com: your opinion(s) solicited

by Diane Duane August 18, 2020
August 18, 2020

(waving at the online Young Wizards fandom) Folks, it’s time to look at some changes that are coming to the YW online presence, and discuss at least one of them…

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Outlining: one writer’s approach

by Diane Duane July 25, 2020
July 25, 2020

A note as we begin: Mostly this blog (per its name) is a place I talk about just about everything but writing. Over time, though, people have started asking me…

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