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This is a collection of prompts and activities for remembering, sharing, and saving the everyday moments that matter. You’ll also get occasional notes from me about books, art, creative projects, and what I’m working on next.

What did your childhood taste like?

For Susan Montgomery, it was Sunday French toast, English muffin pizzas, backyard raspberries, Grandma’s cookies, and pistachio pudding in the fancy dishes.

Some memories never make it into a photo album. In an age when almost anything can be photographed, recorded, or even generated with artificial intelligence, The Taste of Ordinary Days looks instead at the real moments no one thought to capture.

Through warm, nostalgic, and gently humorous essays, Susan returns to the foods and traditions of an ordinary Midwest childhood, and invites you to remember your own.

Sometimes the most ordinary moments are the ones we remember most.