Quiet
[Clouds over Bath, September 2008.] Le fin du weekend: the windows are open, the tree outside my living room is blowing in the strong breeze, …
Home, With Cookies
[Simos and Lena’s wedding cookies, September 2008.] I’m home. That whooooooosh you might have heard was my sigh of relief at surviving hours on the …
Notes from Maine
[Seawall Beach, September 2008.] easy a full video download The last time I was in Maine was four years ago in May, just after my …
Totally Charmed
[Baltimore this morning, August 2008.] I think I may have feelings for Baltimore. Wait, come back. I still love San Francisco — no, really, I …
Les Vacances
[Wildcat Beach, morning, July 2008.] Pls. forgive my absence; I have been Away, and it was marvelous. Last summer for my vacation I went to …
Memories Of
[Last night, Spetses, August 2007.] … Greece, and the Mediterranean, slipping into a sea as still as glass and as warm as bathwater, impossibly clear. …
All the Time in the World
Every so often you need a weekend of doing nothing. You need to eat cookies and drink cold lemonade for hours in the backyard with …
A Southerly Weekend, and More Cauliflower Love
Whew. That was a time. I feel like I need to eat strictly vegetables and fruit for the next week to make up for all …
To St. Pat, with Cake
[Guinness chocolate cake, with Guinness, March 2008.] Otherwise known as “amateur night” by certain parties, St. Patrick’s Day to me is soda bread, Altan, Joyce’s …