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Last week we fell off the grid. This is what the land of no Internet looks like.

It's called Doe Bay.

All day, Jason wrote songs and read Annie Dillard's The Living, which takes place in the far distance of that first picture, in what we think was Bellingham but maybe was Canada. Or more of Orcas Island.

Every night I gave myself a neckache by knitting too long. Every morning I cured it in the clothing optional hot tubs.

At four days, our fall could barely be called a vacation. Whatever it was, we both needed it.

And now we're back! If you like to make things, or read things, or eat things, and if you live in Seattle, this is going to be a good week.

On March 31, join me for Scrap: a Chapbook-Making Work Party. I'll teach you how to make your very own Commonplace Book of Pie, or poetry chapbook, or blank journal, or whatever. You have ideas. Bring them! We'll bring the paper and thread. The party is at Scenic Drive, the sewing collective at 611 E Pike Street. $5 entry is optional, and gets you paper and materials. And PIE. For more info, click here.

The sixth annual Seattle Edible Book Festival returns on April 2. Entrants (that could be you) create and bring a piece of edible art related to books. It can pun on a title, refer to a scene or character, look like a book, or just have something to do with books. Whatever the inspiration, it must be edible.

Every type of book--children's classics, detective novels, biographies, fiction and non, poetry, short stories--will be sculpted from a smörgåsbord of foodstuffs. Imagine The Brothers Karamatzah, S'more and Peace, Alice in Wonderbread, The Bun Also Rises, Goodnight Moon Pie, Curd Vonnegut, and so many more brainy, beautiful, silly, clever and tasty transubstantiations of books we love into treats we eat! For more information on how to enter and where to go, click here.

Spring quarter also starts this week, which means I'm up to my eyeballs in English. Homework calls....have a great week!