I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. -D.H. Lawrence Tonight I went to a jam-making/pickling class with INNA Jam! Needless to say, it was both interesting and a lot of fun. Our…
To thine own self be true.-Shakespeare (Hamlet)For the past few years, every time I've thought of President's Day, I've simultaneously thought of Polonius' famous line from Hamlet. Not really for any particular reason, either. It's just that somehow in February, when I find myself stuck in the middle of a winter that seems like it's…
"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." -Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own)It's hard to believe that I've now had this blog for 8 months and also that today's post is my 50th! In the great scheme of things, this isn't all that much time, but still,…
The forest stands as a shivering pillar for night/and the silence is a silver cup where moments fall/echoes distinct, whole, a careful chisel/sustained by carved lines. . .-George Seferis ("Erotikos Logos") I woke up today to darkness and rain. Boo! Needless to say, this weather is beyond depressing. It's hard to believe that exactly a…
After excitement we are so restful. When the thumb of fear lifts, we are so alive.-Mary Oliver ("May")It doesn't really bother me, but I think I worry too much. Or maybe what I really mean is that I think too much. At different moments throughout the day, the following thoughts float through my mind: how…
One sentence ends and another always begins, though not always in the place the last one left off, not always continuous with the old conditions. -Nicole Krauss (Great House)While I've never been the biggest Valentine's Day fan around, I do like celebrating holidays--and especially ones that lead to massive cuts in chocolate prices at drugstores…
Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged.Missing me at one place search another,I stop some where waiting for you.-Walt Whitman (Song of Myself)It's funny to think I made this soup almost two weeks ago, but I've just felt so weird about posting it, considering the weather here on the west coast has been going…
"I never change, I simply become more myself." - Joyce Carol OatesI have a small confession to make; from that one simple cocktail of Campari and Fennel, a new love affair has come into my life: I am in love with fennel. And when I say "in love," I mean head over heels, wildly crazy…
I must rejoice beyond the bounds of time...even though the world be appalled at my joy, and in its coarseness knows not what I mean. -Ruysbroeck the Admirable (from Huysmans' "Against Nature")It's only February 3 and I've already broken one of my resolutions for the new year: did I not, back when 2011 had just…
Dining with Dostoevsky 