The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality or the failed experiment they call the nuclear family. This is the music of elements, untarnished, unrehearsed.


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I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry.
KATE CHRISTENSEN
I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beauti...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, lik...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done whi...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely ...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
Famously cancer fighting, laden with vitamins, minerals, soluble fiber, and phytonutrients, broccoli...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without makin...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human bod...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, w...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking fo...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true - to have the kind of romantic bo...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
KATE CHRISTENSEN
On Halloween, kids get to assume, for one night the outward forms of their innermost dread, and they...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
I remember the moment I first became aware of aging. I was 30. I looked down at my knees, and the sk...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
It's interesting to try to imagine how early humans discovered what was edible and what wasn'...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Ma...
KATE CHRISTENSEN
I've never been an outward rebel, but inside, I just rebel deeply.
KATE CHRISTENSEN
In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and sti...
KATE CHOPIN
The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penet...
KATE CHOPIN
Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of...
KATE CHOPIN
When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.
KATE CHOPIN
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exce...
KATE CHOPIN
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been ac...
KATE CHOPIN
I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the...
KATE CHOPIN
A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect ...
KATE CHOPIN
It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating ...
KATE CHOPIN
She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the s...
KATE CHOPIN
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
KATE CHOPIN