Evie Coates wrote a new post, An Easter Eve Reflection 7 years ago
“Lemon, YESSSsss!!” I said aloud to myself just now. Yes, I’m alone in my dear little house and I’m talking to myself. Reading through a recipe for “lemony asparagus soup,” I was lamenting the fact that my […]
Evie Coates wrote a new post, A Dreamer, a Drawer, and a Lollygagger 7 years ago
When I asked the kiddos at the lunch table today, “What are your plans for the long weekend?”, I was pleasantly surprised to hear things like: “I really don’t have any plans.” “We’ll probably eat pancakes.” “I […]
Evie Coates wrote a new post, Skorpor 8 years ago
While living in Umeå, Sweden I worked occasionally (when I was bored with window shopping, reading and writing) at a cool place called Kafe Station (pronounced stah-SHOON, not STA-shen). Moving right along. A l […]
Evie Coates wrote a new post, Spotlight 8 years ago
Last night I was in the Hatch for a good while. I sipped red, painted green, listened to blues and glowed gold in the spotlight. See, I have this clip-on lamp that hangs above my worktable (and directly overhead) […]
Evie Coates wrote a new post, Tomato Jam Session 8 years ago
My new friend (and art patron), Kim Watkins, wrote a while back and asked for this recipe, said she was intending to serve it for dinner when her in-laws came for a visit. I do love to hear who these recipes get […]
Evie Coates wrote a new post, Moroccan Spiced Chicken and Redhead Kate 9 years ago
Rewind one week. Hutchmoot 2010, there is much bustle and chatter in the sunshine-yellow kitchen…Saturday evening’s Moroccan Spiced Chicken, not to mention many other tasty foodly items, would not have come off […]
Evie Coates wrote a new post, Hazel's Granddaughter 9 years ago
As I sling imperfect measurements of flour and brown sugar into a big enamelware bowl this morning, as I sip my coffee out of the Swede coffee cup (“you can always tell a Swede but you can’t tell him much”), as I […]
Evie Coates wrote a new post, How Deep Is That River? 9 years ago
Mason Jennings. My favorite lately. His voice has an earnest, genuine, conversational tone. He manages to pierce the film that usually separates me from the recorded person. There’s a thrust and a glottal to his […]
Evie Coates wrote a new post, On the Blogwagon 9 years ago
A friend muttered an under-the-breath comment the other day about the infrequent nature of my writing. That part I know of myself, that trait I don’t like very much, and that I try to press down under the water so […]
Evie Coates wrote a new post, The Reader 9 years ago
In our sky-high tower by the sea, there was a vacuum. It was a vacuum void of my own computer, and it was glorious. Sure, I checked my email via someone’s iPhone about three times during the week, only emptying […]
Evie Coates wrote a new post, So Sorry 9 years ago
I’m freezing. I’m hungry. I’m surly. I’ve been scolded, twice in one day. Not the usual average for a girl who avoids confrontation at any and all costs and feels at her lowest after even the slightest sting of a […]
Evie Coates wrote a new post, Sweetness 9 years ago
Each year when I celebrate my birthday, one of the things I love most is to conjure in the kitchen for the loved ones who have gathered on my behalf. I know it seems a little backwards, me being the birthday girl, […]
Evie Coates wrote a new post, The Curfew Bell 9 years ago
Today in church, Randy spoke about freedom. (Hooray!!) As believers, we need to be reminded (at least I do, often) that the written laws were nailed to the cross and that we are now called to live as free people. […]
Evie Coates wrote a new post, Take It and Run 9 years ago
First, let me give you just one little glimpse of why I love it here. I just walked up the stairs from my classroom and outside, around on a winding path that leads to the door to the teachers’ lounge. (It’s time […]
Evie Coates wrote a new post, Awakening Songs 9 years ago
One of the duties that proved most difficult for me (after creating sixty-two works of art, of course) was writing about why I did it all. I found myself sitting in the gallery the morning of the opening of the […]
Evie Coates wrote a new post, The Grain of Sound 10 years ago
In my tattered copy of a book simply titled Good Poems (selected by Garrison Keillor), this page is one of many that are dog-eared (gasp!). I think I remember a librarian in fifth grade telling me that this was […]
Evie Coates wrote a new post, Testing, Testing 10 years ago
There is such a thing as an ERB test. Don’t ask me what those letters stand for, but they are the standardized aptitude test currently used in the school where I work. I, personally, just love to call them the […]
Evie Coates wrote a new post, Will There Really Be a Morning 10 years ago
Heaven knows why it has taken me so long to write a little something about this album, the newest EP from friend and soul sister, Julie Lee. Julie and I met several years ago at a friend’s house and found […]
Evie Coates wrote a new post, Curious, Georges 10 years ago
“Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.”
Georges Rouault, a […]
Evie Coates wrote a new post, My Kind of News: A Miracle On the Hudson 10 years ago
I don’t watch the evening news. The white noise of so many busy-body blabbermouths saying the same things over and over again usually lacks luster for me. I’d rather have quiet or music. This evening when I got […]
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