On Not Running (+ Cherry Pie)
The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea. ~ Isak Dinesen The other night at the gym I was grumpily …
Cooking with Emily
[At Green Gulch Farm, July 2011.] A weekend of good eating and, as sometimes happens, not too many photographs taken. My sister-in-law Emily is in …
How it Goes
[On the table, June 2011.] I cooked a lot during the weekend. Woke up to pouring rain (pouring rain! In June!) Saturday morning and decided …
Rain, Cold, Cookies, Spring
[Over the mountain, near Geyserville, May 2011.] It’s raining today in San Francisco (wait — it’s raining?? On the last day of May? This is …
About that Wedding Cake …
[Cake for Leah and Simon, gorgeous photo by Sweet Monday Photography.] A year ago I was obsessing about butter cream — how much, would it …
Friday Snapshot(s)
(or, small notes to myself) The sun has just slipped out again and the hills are glowing green, green, in a way that sings — …
Thyme-Scrambled Eggs
[Flowers, bay, October 2010.] Last weekend I was invited for drinks at a house perched near the top of the Inverness ridge, somehow tucked into …
Toujours Amour & Caramel Pots de Creme
[Bridalveil Falls, Yosemite, February 2011.] And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To …
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies + Hitting the Road
[On my table right this minute, February 2011.] Today I am working from home and baking cookies and making soup (roasted potato-leek, with spinach and …