Jul 13 2012
If it’s July, it’s got to be plum. Lots of them. You might actually call it a bumper crop; not quite as bumper-y as the one from 2010, which yielded about 60 lbs for the 1 (one) plum tree in our yard, but still. I’m not exactly sure which variety they are, but they are [...]
Jun 29 2011
“I raised to my lips a spoonful of the cake . . . a shudder ran through my whole body and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary changes that were taking place.” Marcel Proust As a child, I used to vacation with my father’s first cousin Nina, at her house in the small village [...]
Jun 12 2011
Act I: We were going to a friend’s house for dinner last night, and the word was that we should bring dessert – a small price to pay for what was yet another feast. At first, I was in the mood for something chocolate, for two reasons: one, I’m always in the mood for chocolate [...]
Click for RSS