Choosing Cheese

Choosing Cheese

Travel is supposed to be about newness and adventure, isn’t it? The challenge of trying unfamiliar things, new experiences. Yet as I think most of us do on a trip, I also love meeting up with something familiar. Sometimes I even “have my cake and eat it, too” (to mix...
Pond

Pond

Come along with me, let’s fly over an expanse of leafy Cape Cod woods, oaks interspersed with pines. Occasionally the foliage swath is punctuated by a house, or several houses in a row, plus roads like threads of black or sandy brown, and most notably by jewel-like...
 A Cup of Tea

 A Cup of Tea

Back from a trip, I blow into the house, lugging bags of various shapes and sizes. Now to unpack: distribute this, stash that, put something somewhere, dump laundry into the bin, all the things you do to get yourself back into normal life. Seldom is this an orderly or...
Cara Cara Cake

Cara Cara Cake

The Farmer’s Market on a recent Saturday afternoon, and I’m gazing at the bounty of early January in southern California. What to buy? Which lovely opportunities shall I select from the glowing spectrum before me? Orange, yellow, green, even the rosy blush of blood...

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