An ideal day for Gluttony. Snacks, canned food, baked goods, candy bars, bottled water, beer, wine ... all of it is piled on millions of kitchen counters as Hurricane Sandy bears down on us. I gaze at the mountain of apples on our table and think of pie, cobbler, danishes, turnovers. I don't know how…
It's another deadly Monday, and today's essay on Lust comes breathlessly from yours truly. Now that it's up at Hunger Mountain, I'm all sorts of flushed. Please join me there, as I admit my lustfulness while discovering what's really at the heart of the writing life.
Sloth signals a deep and enduring commitment to the couch. Having spent a little while on bed rest earlier this year, I understand this Sloth well. Though Sloth was imposed on me, my pregnant body with its rusty joints and swollen limbs settled pretty quickly into my pre-birth berth. The to-do list grew longer by…
This deadly Monday, go green and consider what you most Envy. Cheryl Wilder and I continue our series at Hunger Mountain with my essay on the green-eyed monster. I had a lot of fun surveying seven writers about their Envy, admitting my own, and writing it all into this piece. True to the essay's form, I discovered new…
In your writing life, if you are anything like me, you've scrolled through new book deals on Publishers Marketplace and been seized by Envy. You've abandoned your essay and spent four Slothful hours poking around online when you meant to just look up the difference between "continual" and "continuous." You've felt too Proud to accept…
Suzanne Farrell Smith 