To cook a recipe collected from one’s travels is another form of remembering, less with the mind than with the senses, drawing an experience from the past and making it come alive again, folding distance into presence. Continue reading Can’t Take it With You
I set my alarm for 6:20 every morning, the idea being that I will get showered, dressed and downstairs in time to make breakfast. But those … Continue reading Manna for a Late Bird
In turbulent times, people turn to poetry instead of the news as a form of solace and truth-speaking. Continue reading Poetry vs. Fake News
These missing-person cases, these disappearances, they are like the black holes of daily life, reminders that all around us, at all times, is loss and the many possibilities for it. Continue reading The World is Beautiful, the World is Brutal
How does one ever recover from the mirrors in Lulu Lemon dressing room? The triplicate ones, in extremely close quarters, that show not only your hair’s split ends but also every weird detail of your posture and the strange way … Continue reading How to Survive the Lulu Lemon Dressing Room Mirror
Who are your people, the ones you feel most seen by, the ones that give you strength and inspiration? Continue reading On Benefactors and Portals
Source: Dum Dum’s Double D’s Continue reading Dum Dum’s Double D’s
Don’t wander into your husband’s office weeks before your birthday and discover printouts of longhaired dachshunds on his desk. It’s supposed to be a surprise. Make … Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Longhaired Dachshunds: A User’s Manual
For Christmas, I gave my 13-year-old daughter a pair of glasses that look like something Alice found in Wonderland. They’re Sweet Tart pink, washed in iridescence, … Continue reading The Glasses
I have a set of necessary essentials for a city: it has to have a good bakery, good coffee, a bookstore, and a good place to exercise. Bakery … Continue reading Quiche Cluster
