of grandmothers, gardens, and thanksgiving, with katrina kenison

AT THE HOLIDAYS we surround ourselves with family and friends, and so with Thanksgiving just ahead, I wanted to do just that on the radio show and podcast – invite someone special over. You may know Katrina Kenison from our past exchanges here, where we have swapped lentil soup recipes, or written each other a series of letters about the prospect of being not quite as young as we used to be.

Katrina lives, and gardens, in New Hampshire (that’s the gate to her place, above), and is the author of “The Gift of an Ordinary Day” and “Magical Journey,” and now she has created a brand new book, called “Moments of Seeing: Reflections from an Ordinary Life.”

As I was reading through the essays in it last week, one really got to me–speaking of the subject of friends and family. I thought it’s time for you to meet Katrina in person, too.

We compared notes on our gardens (and the lessons therein), on the influence of our grandmothers, and Katrina even shared her Cranberry-Orange Nut Bread recipe, just in time for the festive season.

Read along as you listen to the Nov. 21, 2016 edition of my public-radio show and podcast using the player below. You can subscribe to all future editions on iTunes or Stitcher (and browse my archive of podcasts here).

grandmothers, gardens and more with katrina kenison

Q. Congratulations on the new book–and as writer myself, who has published books in the conventional way, I praise you for being brave enough to go ahead and publish it yourself. It’s something I have thought about, but never done.

A. It was so much fun to be hands-on, for this entire process. As you know I worked in publishing for years; I was an editor before I became a writer. In all those years and in all the books I got to work on, I never

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