Personal essays.
Reflections on food, family, community, and connection.
Liver Lady
News of death is never easy and getting blind sided by it adds one more layer of emotion to sift through. When you finally hit the bottom of your grief, you’re left grasping onto the undeniable truth of how precious our time here really is.
Kale Revolution
And there I stood, wresting with my conscious for a good five minutes. Surely I can go without it for eight days, I reasoned. Why, I wondered, when there are so many other alternatives?
Burst of Life
The best time to clean beeswax, in my experience, is in the dead of winter when it is grey and lifeless and the thermometer can barely get itself above 0ºF. Here's why. When you finally get all of your containers of miscellaneous wax rounded up and pull that lid off of your old Folger's wax can, you will be instantaneously met with a burst of life.
Do it Right
Last week I did exactly what they warn you about. I went back. I took a perfectly good childhood memory and jimmied open the door. I went to Disney World.