Sunday Dinners (+ A Spinach Soufflé)
[Limantour, March 2012.] March. Suddenly, we’re on the cusp of spring. This strange, dry, sunny winter has turned everything around and the mountains are hardly …
Home, and Getting Back to It
[Near Golden Gate Park, February 2012.] I like to think that the best part of traveling is coming home, especially when you like home as …
All Good (+ Almond Butter Cookies)
[Winter beach, January 2012.] In Maine, where my toes are chillier than usual and the clouds seem tangible (and puffy) enough to hold in your …
The Last Friday of the Year
[This morning, December 2011.] December 30th. We are tiptoeing up to the edge of the year and peering over its edge into the unknown. I’m …
It’s That Time
This is the time of year when all I’m doing is making up lists — constantly, consciously writing lists. Example 1: For a holiday party …
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 …
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 …
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[Northstar at rest, October 2011.] After all that, after brushing off the crumbs and packing away the dress and wistfully wishing the flowers adieu and …