Posts under ‘Friends’

I’ve been on the road a lot lately, to one place or another, but most of that on-the-roading has been for fun and personal reasons. This? Not a bad thing. (Thank you, United, for your Double EQM promotion.) Today, I am officially noting for the record that I am in Ocean City, Md., which means [...]

Before April slips away, I wanted to just honor National Poetry Month, and wanted to give a shout-out to my friend Susan Borie Chambers, who I met at the same writing residency in Vermont where I met my friend Gary Miller. The poem I’ve linked to from her name is one that she read to [...]

I’m not going to lie…I don’t know if it’s just because I’m a blogger who is patently unafraid to step out from behind my computer screen, but I have often discovered there are huge perks to being someone who writes inane garden and food posts while also showing up at social events. It’s not logical, [...]

Earlier this week, a post to a listserve I belong to pointed me in the direction of a really beautiful audio slideshow that features portraits of 75 of the attendees at 2008′s Food and Society Conference. Even if some of the people aren’t familiar to you, the portraits, all taken by Bart Nagel, are lovely [...]

I have eaten food all over the world. I have been in a lot of restaurants, and hope to go to many, many more in this lifetime. But I’m about to make a pronouncement I never thought I’d actually make: I have found my favorite restaurant. I’ve made no secret of my love of tapas. [...]

On Sunday afternoon, I returned to the scene of my planting back in December. Although I’d seen pictures that demonstrated actual seedling growth, I did have some trepidation, imagining the bed that I planted to be barren (again, I had seen pictures of radish seedlings, but they were up close and, well, PhotoShop is a [...]

It’s no secret how I felt about the rabbits who made their way in and out of my Iowa garden. So far, I have yet to see a rabbit in California, although I’m sure they’re somewhere, munching happily on vegetables, maybe in the Central Valley. Regardless, although I don’t give them much thought any more, [...]

Last weekend, Cameron and Anita were over at my house with some other people, and just after Cameron fixed me a very excellent Manhattan, I asked him about the raised beds they’d just installed in their back yard. They were ready to plant, he told me, and I suspect my eyes widened a bit. See, [...]

This is the story of a friend named Sam, and how she inspired me to try something new. See, back in September, Sam pulled off an all-out (and ultimately v. successful) blitz of fundraising for Race for the Cure, setting herself what sounded like an impossible goal and then going after it with every resource [...]

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine from the Great State of North Carolina instant-messaged me on Facebook. “Dude,” he said. “I’ve been catching up on your blog, and what happened to you? You’ve become a total California foodie.” “I was born to be a total California foodie,” I said. I was kidding, but [...]