{Tokyo} Insolite Salon
This is a travel post about hair. If you don’t care about hair, I’d suggest drooling over pictures of Jiro’s sushi or cooking up a simple frittata. Back to food soon enough, but I just had to share a...
View Article{Travel} Grand Canyon / Maswik Lodge
You know how some things are so awesome that they almost become cliche — like bacon, ninjas or Chuck Norris? The Grand Canyon is one of those things. So it was only recently that I thought perhaps I...
View ArticlePostcard from Paradise
I’ve been looking forward to this for a long time. I’m on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, surrounded by lush greenery, birdsong, and the gentle breeze of the trade winds. It’s a quieter version of home,...
View ArticleThe Last of Summer Tomato Salad
Et tu, summer? After my last post about being still, I have to confess that I have been anything but. I woke up one day found myself in London: I was there for business, but I did manage to fit in...
View ArticleWhole Trout en Papillote
It’s finally the end of the week and I’m feeling like the fish above. He’s all, “Girl, my terrariums are all dessicated and don’t even talk to me about my hair, so I’m just going to lie down in a bed...
View ArticleHow Boston Restored My Sanity
Last month, which shall heretofore be known as The Month in Which I Lacked the Mental Fortitude to Post, I shrieked “I QUIT!!!” to my car, which accepted my resignation with stoic silence. My...
View Article{Travel} Palm Desert and Anza-Borrego State Park, California
A native of the east coast, my impression of the desert has always been as follows: You are always crawling through it on your knees. Saying “agua”. Then you see an oasis. But you collapse before you...
View ArticleO’Henry Peaches from Frog Hollow Farm
I am going to publish a scientific paper about how time goes more quickly in the summer and when you’re shopping on eBay. If you follow me on Facebook you know that I just got back a couple of weeks...
View Article{San Diego} Emme J Boutique
Every once in a while you come across an ethical dilemma. Let’s say you find out, through the kindness of a friend (who is obviously a lot more generous than I am — thanks Alice!), about a super...
View ArticleGluten-Free Banana Chocolate Muffins
I don’t know about you, but I’m pining for summer. We had a lovely, temperate summer here in San Diego and have been suffering through a heat wave for the past couple of weeks. Suffering, I say!...
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