[Solo dinner, June 2008.]
Boy do I love soft serve. I love it almost as much as I love baseball — so Saturday night at the A’s game when both got together I was pretty much in heaven. If the ice cream in question was served in a little plastic baseball cap (”safe for [...]

[Dinner the other night, May 2008.]
OK, so I lied. I did soak beans the other day, but we didn’t actually eat them that same night. While they plumped up crisp and delicious, when the time came for dinner I honestly just … did not want them. Instead, I found myself staring down [...]

[Spring flowers, April 2008.]
When T.S. Eliot called April the ‘cruellest month’ ( breeding/ Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing/ Memory and desire, stirring/ Dull roots with spring rain) I think he did it a disservice. True, clouds are hovering over San Francisco today, and last night I fell asleep to the drip-drip-drip of [...]

[Blossom, Napa, March 2008.]
There are times I wish I was a much better photographer, and today was one of them: on the second day of March in Northern California the sun was bright and the green grass even brighter. Up in Napa, the bare vineyards were run through with yellow blossoms (mustard, I think [...]

The New York Times front page story today broke my heart a little bit — this coming on the heels of “Atonment” last night — which, though a tiny bit over-dramatic, was as affecting and beautiful as the book — and while I hate to wish a year away, I honestly can’t wait too much [...]