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Summer Happy Hour: Bourbon Cures What Water Can’t 22 Jun 2013 | 08:48 pm
The cure for anything is salt water––tears, sweat, or the sea. –Isak Dineson Chlorine will do, too, though lake-swimming is my favorite, especially when there’s a quarter-moon of sandy beach hugging ...
The Poetry of the Everyday 6 Jun 2013 | 07:26 am
In my high school sophomore English class, our desks were separated along the two long sides of the room facing each other, half of us with our backs to windows that looked out into a courtyard. A wa...
Carrot-Ginger Soup with Lemon 15 May 2013 | 06:53 pm
Soup might not seem like an especially fitting spring endeavor, but in Brooklyn now, where it is sunny and 70 degrees one day and moody and cold the next, soup feels right. Especially when it is a bri...
A Body as Full as a Canvas Sail 3 May 2013 | 06:40 pm
After my birthday, I spent a sunny weekend at my mom and step-dad’s that felt like a super dose of fun. I held my niece upside down, we buzzed our lips back and forth and played a game where I touched...
What’s Right 17 Apr 2013 | 06:33 pm
On Monday night I came home from work feeling a little more alive. It can take a surprising slap of a disaster to do that. On the sidewalk, I looked into people’s faces. When the D train traveled over...
Easing into Spring 5 Apr 2013 | 06:45 pm
At the vernal equinox, I stayed with a dearest friend in two bright rooms in the rear of a bungalow in Los Angeles. The setting felt like a tropical version of The Secret Garden: just off the street, ...
Giveaway: The Mermaid of Brooklyn 2 Apr 2013 | 05:43 am
First, I have to tell you about Amy. We met she when she was very pregnant and I was interviewing for some freelance work at Domino. Soon after, the magazine had folded, and I kept bumping into her in...
Keeping It Simple 14 Mar 2013 | 06:07 pm
In the past few weeks, I’ve been reading a book about Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda that had a bit of advice that’s stuck with me: the more complicated life is, the simpler your meals should be. It wa...
What I’ve Been Reading 7 Mar 2013 | 06:26 pm
In the dining room (the only place the stove was lit) and in Lucile’s room, where she sometimes took the liberty of lighting a small fire in the evening, you could smell the smoky perfume of sweet woo...
Forgetting and Remembering 1 Mar 2013 | 07:52 pm
I wouldn’t call it a health kick, because I ate three and a half slices of pizza last Tuesday night, even if it was with a side of kale. But I do find myself on the yoga mat more nights than not or wa...
