calamity jane

Author: Calamity Jane

  • Bread Every Day, Part 2: Techniques

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    Calamity Jane

    For many years I thought, with all kinds of cooking, that the ingredients determined the product. I’d measure carefully everything on the list, disregard the brief instructions and expect it to come out. Certainly quality is important– you can’t make good food out of bad ingredients, but the quantities involved in a recipe are often…

  • Mama Rage

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    Calamity Jane

    Hey friends, I’ve had a shitfuck coupla days. I feel ready to turn in my chips. I know it has much to do with the time of the month, but does knowing that help in any way? Not particularly. I have a few posts in my draft box entitled Mama Rage. But nothing ever gets…

  • Bread Every Day, Part 1: Ingredients

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    Calamity Jane

    I started making bread when I was 14. I know. I was a weird kid. I also wore peasant dresses and a hooded brown woolen cloak to school. I read wild plant books with the fervor usually reserved for Teen magazine and sometimes I even washed my peasant dresses by hand in the bathtub. The…

  • To School or Not to School

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    Calamity Jane

    I’ve been obsessing lately. It’s not unusual. I always seem to have some kind of bees in my bonnet. Lately the sujet du obsession is school. Or should I say “school.” Maybe this is just the way it is now, but here they call it “school,” no matter the age. “Day care” is practically blasphemy.…

  • It’s How You Play

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    Calamity Jane

    You aren’t even reading this. You’re skipping right down to see if you won, aren’t you. Bad girl. Don’t you know, it’s not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game? You all played your hearts out. Many a sad story was told. Many a project promised. One shameless reader posted a…