So while in NYC last weekend I went to both Rye and Walter – the latter which is a mere 10 blocks from where my grandmother’s father’s restaurant once stood. In the ummm, many, many hours I sat at the bar at Walter ordering drinks and oysters with Vivi & Joe, I started thinking about [...]

Back after a fast 5 days in NYC – mostly working but a few snippets of good – raw vegan lunch with Anna and Jenna, a weekend with the lovely Vivian of shopping and eating and making up for 3 months of rural living, and the serendipity of waking up on the 2nd anniversary of my [...]

We’re doing family Thanksgiving on Saturday, but I wanted to run up to the cabin today to hang out with my brother – it’s my 1st Thanksgiving home in probably 17 years, and his first without his babies since they were born. So. We trekked in with a big pot of chili and cornbread, sat [...]

I used to do these half-moons all the time in high school when I was obsessed with 1930s movies. I also realized this morning it probably had something to do with all these long winter nights. Have you caught the manicure fever sweeping the internets?

What is it about November? So much grief and strangeness, rustling overhead in those last leaves waiting to drop. It’s as if we’re all holding our breath and stocking our burrows until the snowfall, when we can bustle and be merry with the holidays. But until then; November. Flare (excerpts) by Mary Oliver 8. The [...]

Just in time for the holidays, my mama comes through with her recipe. I took this photo in the car as I ate a nice leftover shortbread breakfast!! Gluten Free Shortbread 1/2 cup brown rice flour 1/2 cup white rice flour 1/2 cup tapioca flour 2 tsp. xanthan gum 1 tsp. vanilla 1/2 c. confectioners [...]