About: Nancy Spiller
Recent Posts by Nancy Spiller
Drawing Conclusions & Startling Moments
While getting ready for my upcoming UCLA Extension Words & Pictures Class (Feb. 20-21), I came across this piece I wrote for Coagula Arts Journal in 2007. Done a couple… Continue reading »
Written on January 21, 2021 at 2:02 pm
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Soured For Life
To an outsider that crock filled with bubbling beige gunk on my kitchen counter may look like something waiting to be thrown out. To me it is a… Continue reading »
Written on May 9, 2020 at 2:23 pm
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What’s Eating Us, Part II: You Say Yuca and I Say Cassava!
In Part I, May, 2017, I revisited Northern California’s food scene circa the 1970s and ’80s, while contemplating our current irksome eating habits. Restaurant dining had come to feel like… Continue reading »
Written on April 5, 2020 at 5:27 pm
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Fins Over Feathers: A Fish-Giving Tale
While I get ready to teach my Spring UCLA Extension Writers’ Program Class Finding Your Voice, I offer you this holiday piece from last Fall’s Edible Ojai/Ventura. Enjoy! OR:… Continue reading »
Written on March 2, 2019 at 3:24 pm
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Tags: Alternative Thanksgiving, childhood, cranberry relish, Fish-Giving, holidays, pescatarian, salmon, Thanksgiving
Expiration Dates
While working on the audio version of my novel Entertaining Disasters, getting ready for my summer class, Finding Your Voice, at UCLA Extension’s Writers’ Program, and… Continue reading »
Written on May 29, 2018 at 7:37 pm
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Recent Comments by Nancy Spiller
- February 17, 2022 on Venetian Laundry
- November 1, 2021 on Venetian Laundry
- October 11, 2021 on Drawing Conclusions & Startling Moments
- July 18, 2021 on Venetian Laundry
- November 2, 2019 on Fins Over Feathers: A Fish-Giving Tale