{"id":7140,"date":"2016-03-24T21:15:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T02:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/?p=7140"},"modified":"2016-03-24T21:15:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T02:15:42","slug":"a-new-chapter-for-sixburnersue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/2016\/03\/a-new-chapter-for-sixburnersue\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Chapter for Sixburnersue"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DSC_0071\"<\/a>Dear Sixburnersue Readers,<\/p>\n

This is a long overdue thank you note, of sorts. A thank you for being patient while I let blog posts go (mostly) by the way side over the last six months.<\/p>\n

I have turned my book manuscript in, we have finished shooting all the photos, and now the book is in the hands of the talented editors and designers at Roost<\/a>. I think it is going to be my best book yet! Still, we will have to wait a whole year before it is designed, printed, and published next spring.<\/p>\n

It means though, that I can no longer use the book work as an excuse for not blogging. It means I have to be honest with you and tell you that there was, in fact, another reason for the temporary suspension of sixburnersue. Last fall, my partner Roy and I ended both our personal and business relationship. We retired the \u201cGreen Island Farm\u201d name, and after debating who would stay on the farm property, I made a decision to move in December. (Though I am fortunately still in West Tisbury, and of course still on Martha\u2019s Vineyard\u2014no way I\u2019m leaving this island!) Roy and the chickens are still at the old place.<\/p>\n

Having written so much about our life on the farm, I felt I owed it to you to tell you this news, but it wasn\u2019t (isn\u2019t) something that I honestly want to dwell on in a blog that began\u2014and hopefully will continue\u2014as an expression of my joy in cooking and growing vegetables. Someday I will settle back into one of the many approaches I\u2019ve taken to writing a memoir, and I will have yet another lens to look through! Life continues to surprise and challenge me, and some days (you all know this feeling), it seems to be nothing short of a Herculean effort to make it all work. But somehow, regardless of whether I\u00a0fail or succeed, I’m always\u00a0compelled to move forward, to keep trying, and especially, to keep doing what I love. Here\u2019s the geeky truth: My high school motto plays an endless loop in my head. The Latin is \u201cInveniam viam aut faciam<\/em>.\u201d The English translation is \u201cI shall find a way or make one.\u201d<\/p>\n

In that spirit, I have set to work finding a new piece of land on which to grow vegetables and flowers (and restart a small market business), and I hope to have good news to report on that very soon. In December, I also began working part-time at Bunch of Grapes bookstore in Vineyard Haven, so I get to spend part of my days in the company of books and book lovers. I\u2019m continuing to write a regular food column for Martha\u2019s Vineyard Magazine<\/em>, and working on new features for Vegetarian Times<\/em>. Patching together a living is a time-honored tradition here on Martha\u2019s Vineyard, where more traditional jobs are scarce, so I am not alone in this endeavor. It might be less scary\u00a0and more lucrative (well, definitely more lucrative!) if I chose another route, but it wouldn\u2019t be as challenging or creative or ultimately as satisfying.<\/p>\n

So I thank you again for hanging in there, and now we will get back to our regular programming!<\/p>\n

Susie<\/p>\n

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