Thanks-giving
[Along the Pacific coast, November 2011.] Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over …
Making Pumpkin Pie from a Pumpkin
So what happened was: I went to the store to get the fixings for a pumpkin pie — the evaporated milk, the canned puree — …
Vegetarian Thanksgiving
[Kehoe Beach, November 2011.] Right — it’s November. The light, when the sun is shining, looks a lot like that photo above. I’m crossing my …
A Pot of Tea
[Tea, October 2011.] How I love coffee; I sincerely could count the ways: 1. I love it for its little zing of caffeine that, once …
Today
I woke up from strange (seriously, strange) dreams to the sound of pouring rain, but miraculously the sun came out and is now shining so …
Sunny October, I Begin Again
[San Francisco, October 2011.] Fall: utterly, truly. The light is fantastic, slanting against San Francisco’s buildings in the late afternoons and curling around the cyprus …