Pesto Pine Nut Bread and Eudora Welty

In the style of Sesame Street, for lit geeks like myself, this Monday is brought to you by: Eudora Welty and two full French Press carafes of coffee. “For her life, any life, she had to believe, was nothing but the continuity of its love.” ― Eudora Welty, The Optimist’s Daughter I could not imagine […]

Sauteed Shrimp with Gremolata and Spiced Butter and Tacos

Let us remember…that in the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that we might more fully inhabit our lives and the world in which we live them, and that if we more fully inhabit these things, we might be less apt to destroy both.                                                                                             Christian Wiman. Happy Poetry Month, y’all. Examined […]

Ricotta Calzones

Traveled across an ocean, admittedly of corn, to arrive in Iowa City last night for the Examined Life Conference to which I brought my usual song and dance, and this time, one more song and dance. I have a travel buddy, the infamous Linda Drozdowicz, medical school classmate, aka, the only person you can call […]