The other day I stopped at a roadside meatball place to grab a bite on my way to buy a few trees. Meatballs, or kofte, are sort of their own food group here, and one thing you can count on is that if a place specialises in grilled kofte, piyaz is probably on the menu …
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Earth Poetry
(Can you spot the sliver of rainbow in there ?) Poetry month now, Earth Day tomorrow. We can hit them both at once. Since everyone's gardens are waking up (at least the Northern hemisphere ones) and so many blogs I read are full of the optimism of Spring and the new growing season, I wanted …
Incubator update
10 A.M.11:30 P.M.
Big cheer, medium cheer, little cheer.
We have been celebrating some around here, some things quietly, some not.To begin with the least quiet celebration imaginable, Baki had his first proper birthday party yesterday (although he turns 8 on the 28th). Until last year, I was able to convince him that birthdays were something celebrated with your family. Then he started primary …
Shades of green
There was an Irish pub called Shades of Green walking (or stumbling, as it happened) distance from one of my first apartments in NYC (I moved a lot). But I will spare you any details of what Guinness and whiskey-sour induced behavior went down on its shadowy premises. I actually shudder when I think back …
Garden Correspondent 