Michelle Eames Writer

Here's a blog that touches on our fires in Spokane (Our house is fine; others, not so much). The blog also discusses cinnamon rolls...

Where There is Smoke, There are Cinnamon Rolls We evacuated with little notice during the Spokane Complex Fires. Our house was fine only because the wind was in our favor. Some of our neighbors lost everything. We are now home but are still in…

Here's a new blog, on all the uses of an ironing board. Only one of which is actually ironing.

The Ironing Board If you know me, you may be surprised to learn that I like ironing boards. Not because I iron clothes very often (although we used to iron my son’s kilt and dress shirt before bagpiping performance…

Enjoy my new blog about walking, fairy houses, and photography.

Fairy Rhymes with Prairie During a trip last month to the west side of Washington, I discovered that all my close friends like walking, hiking, and beach meanders.  I was good with it.  We walked a lot.  Duri…

I recently was re-introduced to the world of zines. I remembered that I had once made a zine of short poems. I found that original zine, and then compiled two new zines. The first is a collection of haikus about fog and water, and the second is a medium-length poem about a robin’s egg. I already had a template in WORD that arranged the tiny pages into the right format to print (I'll put the link in comments). Now I have my own zines! And I can sell them, for cheap. Or maybe give them away, to extra special friends, just for fun.

Here's a blog about riding horses on the road, and why drivers of cars should slow down when passing.

Road Riding This is an excerpt from my last newsletter.  I thought it deserved its own blog. I’m hesitant to ride my horse down my road these days, even though I used to do a lot of road riding.  Ame…

New rule: At least one writer should always be invited to studio tours and artist gatherings. Thanks to my friend and neighbor Alex Biggs for inviting me to hang out with some artists! Local friends should come visit!

Here's a blog about dressing for the weather. Except no one can dress for the weather in spring.

Changing Temperatures I don’t know how to dress myself anymore. It’s that time of year, when the temperature changes from cold to warm, winter to summer, and my body doesn’t want to give up the layers. My brain doesn’…

This is Purrcy the cat helping me make the bed. Which is not the point of this post. I actually want to share something I learned at Get Lit!, Spokane's writing festival. If you do a google search, and add -AI (minus Artificial Intelligence) in the search box, you won't get the bothersome AI summary at the top of your search results.

I like to go directly to reliable sources to answer my search questions, and this is now much easier if I'm not distracted by the AI summary at the top of the search results.

It seems to work with FireFox, too.

Here's a new blog about spring masquerading as winter.

The Winter that Wasn’t Showed Up in March On March first, I took a picture of the first butter cups in the pasture. On March 14th, we had 8 inches of snow on the ground. Welcome to Spokane! Every winter is different.  We have mud ye…

Here's a blog about my ancient rice cooker. May she rest in peace. Or pieces.

They Don’t Make ‘Em Like They Used To It finally died. The rice maker that I received as a wedding present went kaput. We were married in 1986. This is 2026. We’re calling that an even forty years. (Technically, it’s probably 39.5…