Trees, Plums
[Redwood, Armstrong Woods, August 2010.] I was trying to write this thing about summer — how I felt like I finally caught it on Saturday …
A Few Things
Oh, the beauty of words, infinite: 1. This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you. ~Hafiz and 2. The …
Wordless Wednesday: June 26, 2010
Note: Better photos/full analysis coming in a story I wrote for NPR about baking the cake (pub. TBD) … but here are a few tid-bits.
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 …