As a former professional baker, Samantha Meddaugh decided to have a talk with herself about why she chose baking as a career. She had a self-to-self interview about her experiences and challenges being blind and a baker, as well as misconceptions about being disabled. She spoke to herself in her home kitchen, which features stainless steel appliances, white-with-grey-squiggles granite countertops, and all-white cupboards, with a wooden butcher’s block table in the middle. Interviewer Samantha Meddaugh: How did you get into …
Tag: Blind Writers Project
“In the Same Place” – Personal Essay by Caitlin Hernandez
*Aromatica Poetica is extremely pleased to present a personal essay about the tastes and smells and feels of young love by Caitlin Hernandez. It’s the last in our Blind Writers Project series sponsored by Awesome Foundation Disability* In a way, it all started with that trip to Safeway, to the chocolate pie mix you saw on sale. My birthday was over a month away, but you insisted on buying the easy-to-make dessert for me. “An early birthday present,” you called …
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Poetry and Short Prose by Karo Caran, Includes Recipes!
*Aromatica Poetica is delighted to present Karo Caran’s food and family inspired prose and poetry, including a couple of Grandma’s recipes as part of our Blind Writers Project series sponsored by Awesome Foundation Disability* Salt Child of the earth In shades of pink and white — Noble dweller of rocks Of oceans’ endless sighs Guest of the body, Stardust of the ground — Noble dweller in tears Of joy and grief so profound Ever-present force, Course through life with care, …
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“Date Night, Day Camp” by Kira Grunenberg
*Aromatica Poetica is delighted to present Kira Grunenberg’s personal essay that will make your mouth water as part of our Blind Writers Project series sponsored by Awesome Foundation Disability* The weekend’s trek for inspiration and ingredients was one devised with relative spontaneity. No, this wasn’t a jaunt to the local chain grocery. This was a drive to another county, to explore a still relatively new location for the Korean shop, H Mart – a chain I had only otherwise visited …
Poems & Flash Prose by Mel Finefrock
*Aromatica Poetica is delighted to present Mel Finefrock’s poetry and flash prose in our Blind Writers Project series sponsored by Awesome Foundation Disability* Runoff That night, I washed my hair over and over again as if to clear my head of the persistent thought that I must be unclean. Five months down the road, that rose shampoo has only just begun to smell again of other memories, like that weekend at my dad’s or afternoons on the trail with a …