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Chitra Divakaruni's Blog
May 29, 2009
- Apologies for the long gap between entries. I was finishing my novel, One Amazing Thing, literally working on it day and night. Everything else fell by the wayside. It was intense. My family lived on sandwiches and pizza. (I suspect the boys didn't mind the pizza bit too much). But now that the household is slowly being restored to normal and I'm back in the kitchen, I thought I'd indulge in ...
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April 19, 2009
- The Writers in the Schools program (Houston) sent me this lovely poem by 4th grader Cody, titled Ink Heart:What the night hides:/a stranger in the dark,/ fire and stars, /snakes and thorns,/ a house full of books,/a night full of words,/ the lion's den,/ going farther south. Love that last enigmatic line, Cody! Folks, were you writing like that in 4th ...
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April 16, 2009
- Recently I was at the Google headquarters at Mountain View to give an Authors@Google talk (now up on You Tube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPbSw5Yo2TA)--and I have to say, I was quite charmed. The "campus" is appropriately named. Watching numerous blue-jeaned young men and women ride their bikes (provided by Google) from one building to another, or pause their ...
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April 9, 2009
- Here are some poems by the Zen master Ryokan, one of my favorites:How can we ever lose interest in life?/Spring has come again/ And cherry trees bloom in the mountains.****I came to this village to see the peach blossoms/ but spent the day instead/ Looking at the flowers along the river bank.*****O that my priest's robe were wide enough/ to gather up all the suffering people/ in this floating ...
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March 31, 2009
- Excitement! Excitement! My new children's fantasy novel, Shadowland, came out today! (For a description and excerpt, see www.chitradivakaruni.com). It is a stand alone book, but it's also the final novel in the Brotherhood of the Conch trilogy, a project I began in 2002--a long haul. I want to share with you a bit of the story of how all this came to be.At that time I'd been writing for several ...
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March 30, 2009
- Here's the mango ice cream recipe. My children love this recipe, and as you'll see, it's amazingly easy. I'm going to give you two versions of this recipe.Take a half gallon of your favorite vanilla ice cream and leave it out on the kitchen counter until it softens.Take six ripe mangoes, peel, seed, chop, and blend. When the mangoes are pureed, fold them into the ice cream. Pour into a plastic ...
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March 29, 2009
- The other day I read Malcolm Gladwell's The Outliers in my book club (I belong to one, too) & it made me think about how we owe our success to so many people. How much we have to be thankful for. When I was in my 20s (yes, ancient history), I was visiting The Divine Life ashram in Rishikesh, and Swami Krishnananda, a great monk, asked me, "What do you want in life?" At that time, ...
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March 28, 2009
- Ok, you folks are getting really good at figuring out the quotations I've been putting into the blog, so here's a more difficult one: "It is only the story . . . that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence."I'll give you 2 hints. 1. It's by an African writer--a really amazing one2. I used the quote as an epigraph in one of my novelsFeel ...
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March 28, 2009
- One of my readers, Karen, asked for a recipe, and here it is. I should confess up front that I'm not a gourmet cook, not even close. My long-suffering family will vouch to that. When my two boys were little, I felt ambitious and American one Thanksgiving and made mashed potatoes from scratch. Took me hours. Afterwards, the boys asked me, very politely, Mom, from next ...
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March 27, 2009
- The other day I was flying back from Ithaca. The weather had been bad; for a while I didn't know if the plane would take off. When it finally did, I gave a sigh of relief, opened my book (like most people, I carry one when traveling) and started to read. About half an hour later, the sun was in my eyes, bothering me. I was about to pull down the window covering when I happened to look ...
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March 27, 2009
- I confess. I'm a Virgin Blogger.No. Not that kind.But because this is my first blog ever.I'm excited. Maybe a little nervous. I welcome feedback. Especially feedback that begins with "Dearest Author, I love everything you write."In my blog I'm going to discuss things that I find amazing in the world.I hope it'll be a real discussion, that you'll write back with ...
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