[From my window, August 2009.]
Here, there is sun. There’s been sun for almost a whole week — minus a day ago when the fog was back in full force — and light wind and a clear sky. The sky in fact has been that sheer, deep blue of late summer, swept clean of [...]

[At home, Sebastopol, July 2009.]
I was up at my parents’ house this weekend – my house, really, though I don’t live there anymore — and got to thinking about the idea of comfort: what it means, what it is, how we find it. I think I started thinking about this during dinner Saturday [...]

[Looking toward Limantour, March 2009.]
This weekend the weather turned into summer here in San Francisco, or at least the kind of summer I always wish for: sunny, nearly hot, a warm breeze brushing through the screen to ruffle the Sunday paper spread out across my kitchen table. It was a weekend for g&ts on [...]

[First strawberries of spring, March 2009.]
It’s spring.
I went back to the Fillmore Farmers’ Market this morning after a too-long hiatus (baby, I’ll never cheat on you again, no, I swear) and it kind of blew my mind. I wandered around in a half-daze, dazzled by the new strawberries, asparagus for $2 a bunch, radishes [...]