Alice cooked salmon, zucchini, ravioli, and sauces for us.

Walking around the Botanical Gardens A water lily in the greenhouse FOOD  Lunch yesterday: pizza Dinner yesterday: Tibetan food. Momo (dumpl...

 

Fixing a cold sweet-potato dish in the morning A trip to Costco: while Len checked out I waited in the food court. My brother and sister-in-...

Translations of the Odyssey that are being avidly read as people anticipate the new movie. I read the one by Emily Wilson — see this blog po...

Miriam sent me photos of her adventures in making jam with fruit from the Seattle Farmers’ Market. Some are from last year and some from thi...

“Tell me about a complicated man. Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost when he had wrecked the holy town of Troy, and where he went, a...

“ A  thick layer of smoke from ongoing wildfires in Canada and northern Minnesota has enveloped much of Michigan — including in Metro Detroi...

Remembering J.D. Salinger (1919-2010) Catcher in the Rye  “has never been out of print and has sold over 80 million copies around the world ...

  A gathering for the Bicentennial of the French Revolution: 1989 Roasting a lamb at a friend’s country house in an obscure rural part of Fr...

Patriotic flyover with French tri-color smoke for Bastille Day. Paris Match, July, 1989. Celebrating Bastille Day! Reposted from past yea...