On the Move

I don't usually dread packing up my house and moving to a new one, but this is the first time I've had to move a whole kitchen. Gadgets, glassware, 15 pie plates and way more cast iron than the average 21st century girl should have. I've been thinking a lot about Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott's how-to writing book, where she tells a story about how her father helped her through a bout of grade-school writer's block by telling her that she should write her report about American fowl "bird by bird." It's good advice, and not just for writing. "Box by box, " I'm telling myself as I pack four years of life into cardboard and bubble wrap. That and what my friend Kristen texted me a night I needed help: Keep everything get more boxes. Like this one, full of twenty years of writing notebooks.

I'm also on the move in hyperspace. Allow me to introduce you to my brand new all-pie-all-the-freakin'-time blog: Pie-Scream. In my posts I’ll treat you to pie poems, recipes, tips, interviews, and a bit of natural history. Good Egg will remain online, but this will be my last post here. I hope you'll join me at www.pie-scream.com. It's a Wordpress site, so you can follow my posts and "like" the blog on Facebook much more easily. Obviously, I hope you will. Thanks so much for reading and baking and commenting with me over the years as I wrote bird by bird, box by box, and blog by blog. The future is pie. I'll see you there.