Celi, beloved chronicler of the Kitchen's Garden , posted a challenge last week asking us what we see from our back porches. I've been turning it over in my mind ever since (no doubt helped by the wonderful views that have been popping up in her posts). We don't have any back porches or even …
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Hi Mom!
Happy Mother's Day!We celebrated the way we do every year -- by doing precisely nothing to mark the day. However, the weekend was full of nice surprises. It poured rain yesterday, for instance, and I took a nap with Kaya. It felt so decadent to be lying in bed listening to the rain and dozing …
When in doubt, cheat.
On Sunday night, it was the eve of the lunar new year, so I got busy and made us a new year meal. While I was in China, I learned to eat boiled dumplings for new year (and at any other opportunity that I could find). There was a great restaurant that Ali and I …
Snapshots
My father took it almost personally when it turned out that I was not so great at taking photographs, and this in turn made me not want to take them so much. Then one day I decided that I would just take snapshots and not worry so much about it, and just like that I …
Cola bottle cloches
It has been longer than usual since I last posted, and for all the usual reasons that people don't write -- hectic times, and no wherewithal to bring things to a standstill for long enough to put anything down. I dislike it when the days get away from me, and every day that goes by …
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