A Home Cook's Journal of Tastes & Morsels
Upon reflection, I see that, in many ways, I have hit the same note, every day, for years. In different ways. Some of them, simple. Every evening, through the darkening light from the windows [because I have never been the kind to always hit the switch when I should] spreading the contents of jars from…
// A performance // They were not the ones. That sounds amazing. Thank God. I wrote, You made me feel ordinary. This is how you made someone you love feel. I wrote, You can’t be you and love unconditionally. I wrote, I’m not changing for anyone. I don’t deserve to be invaded. I don’t owe…
There’s a word we all say weird. Or, rather, we do not say it in unison. “cahr-muhl.” “cär-uh-mehl.” or, as my mother calls it, “cär-uh-muhl.” This is fine. We do not have to be doing everything at the same time. I recently admitted to myself that I am very tired, and it was big [the…
How to try and mend a heart (part two). I don’t know. There are no answers. It’s going to pump blood and ache or not ache or not ache and then ache again and then not ache for as long as it wants to. For as long as it can. For as long as it’s…
Arundhati Roy pointed out, “There are things that can be forgotten. And things that cannot-that sit on dusty shelves like stuffed birds with baleful, sideways staring eyes.” And she was right. If I were to summarize my character, it would be with this: recently, I sat on a bench in my favorite book store waiting…
It isn’t that everything is simple; it’s just that sometimes things are much simpler than we anticipate. Allow me to point out the obvious and state: I have made a lot of poppyseed things lately. You’re welcome. I picked a date on a calendar. I set up my phone to e-mail and text a reminder:…
My dad would have been 69 today. Who knows if he would have made it this far? There is always something. You know, you start to watch the way the light hits things differently over the course of a period of time. That might be the most prominent thing in my experience of this blog.…
