Plus ça Change,
[Last bits of summer, September 2009.] [Plus le Meme Chose, non?] October slips in on a rush of 70-degree mornings and the sun beams down …
What I Like Best
[Blackberries in the field, Sebastopol, September 2009.] “Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating …
The Dream of Cake
[Cake for Whitney, May 2009.] Once, a few years ago, I had a long layover in Munich on the way back from Thessaloniki to Washington, …
For the Fourth
Yesterday afternoon I was working from home — in this case, my parents’ house — when my mom knocked on the door. Hot corn muffins, …
Cookies and Milk
One of the best things about being a kid in my parents’ house was that most days when I got home from school there was …
When the Kitchen Calls
The other night for whatever reason I got to feeling a little lonely. I arrived home — my apartment, after a weekend’s minor cleaning frenzy, …
Birthdays, Cakes
[Peanut butter-chocolate cupcake, February 2009.] February seems to be the month of birthdays — and with birthdays, inevitably and of course, comes cake(s). There was …
I Just Had To
[The sky the other night, February 2009.] Probably one of the last things you’d think of doing after being out for a solid 12 hours …
Of Blood Oranges and Windy Days
Once, a very long time ago, I was staying for a week or so at the house in the woods probably because my parents had …