and the New Year: Fresh Greek with a San Francisco Twist

Pretty much all I ever do is dream about when I’ll get back to Greece. Well, perhaps that’s not entirely true — I do think about story ideas and what to make for breakfast the next morning when I have friends staying over or [...]

My bags are packed, my presents organized (if not wrapped), the holiday packages mailed and hopefully already received, my new year’s eve party plans in full swing, and if I am still sort of sick and coughing well, at least there’s peppermint ice cream.
Oh, peppermint ice cream I wait all year long for you because [...]

Like clockwork, every year just before Christmas I catch a cold. Perhaps it’s because it’s our extra busy season at work, or that I’m realizing the end of the year is mere days away and I get flustered, or because those holiday cards aren’t writing themselves, or because of the very chilly temperature outside [...]

[Mint-chocolate cake, December 2008.]
Today: Cold sun. Wearing blue shirt. Old black shoes. Peanut butter and almond butter and boysenberry jam on toasted bread and darjeeling-honey tea. Coffee. My soft white scarf. Barley and kale and chickpeas and tomatoes. Lots of water but not enough yet. Yesterday: Worked on holiday cards. Mooned [...]

[Breakfast in Sebastopol, November 2008.]
all is said and done with, the dishes washed and put away, the guests departed and already arriving east, the laundry spinning itself into cleanliness, the tail end of a long holiday weekend is a bit melancholy. Lucky, then, that summer came back to San Francisco just for today and [...]