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Defining a Lifetime 26 Aug 2013 | 03:37 am
It has been exactly one month and a day since I last wrote, and that, in the blogging world, is a lifetime — a broad swath of running around and chores to do and errands to run and people to see and f...
Crazy Water 24 Jul 2013 | 01:46 am
My mother picked me up at my Manhattan office the other day so that I could take her out to lunch at a nearby faux trattoria — the kind of place that attempts to be Roman in its studied culinary insou...
The Last Man in My Apartment 8 Jul 2013 | 08:55 pm
I say it quietly, under my breath, looking at my shoes. It’s like when Pandora automatically lets my Facebook friends know that I’m listening to early John Denver. I fumble for public explanation. I ...
602: Life Without an Oven 5 Jun 2013 | 09:13 pm
Family lore: My dad was nine when a neighbor living on the south side of Ocean Parkway offered my grandfather first crack at the gorgeous 1920s Spanish-style house he was putting up for sale because h...
A simple tartine. 16 May 2013 | 10:48 pm
In my kitchen right now are two loaves of sourdough bread, both from Bread Alone (because the last time I tried to make a sourdough starter, it began with great promise and then turned gray and sloggy...
My Morning Toast 8 May 2013 | 10:40 pm
“The deeper reason that breakfast inspires me is that we have become so busy maintaining our lives in the working world that we often find ourselves sharing the same house with strangers. The meaning ...
Home, Boston. 18 Apr 2013 | 04:52 am
It’s so quiet, and empty, when he’s left. I feel like a landscape, a ground without a figure. - from Stag’s Leap by Sharon Olds There’s a certain place in Boston that I can smell from a million mile...
If this is Friday, it must be Iowa. 2 Apr 2013 | 03:47 am
Newtown, Connecticut -> New York: 78.6 miles New York -> Chicago: 790.2 miles Chicago -> Los Angeles: 2,015.5 miles Los Angeles -> Santa Barbara: 124.8 miles Santa Barbara -> Berkeley: 323.5 miles Ber...
Life unfolds. 4 Mar 2013 | 04:04 am
My cousin Howard, who is a very smart man, sometimes says that: Life unfolds. At moments when I’m trying to shoehorn my life into going a certain way, I remember that Life unfolds, and that at the end...
Yearning for the Simple Pot of Beans 19 Feb 2013 | 02:17 am
Now that I’m closing in on the publication date of Poor Man’s Feast (March 5th…good heavens), I’m also talking to a lot of people who want to know (usually in a snapshot of just a couple of seconds!) ...
