Pane di Patate

I knew this would happen. I went to Iowa City and began to scratch the itch where my second book wants to break through the skin and into the world. There isn’t enough Benadryl at CVS to suppress it, and now, before the first book has been properly labored and birthed into being, here I […]

Tuscan White Bean and Kale Soup

I always feel refreshed upon returning from the international city of literature (Iowa City). My people, my people. I felt particular synergy between the strange yet tender styles of my travel buddy Linda and myself. We took the trip in her car, two ladies in a bug. Happy for new friends, new books, new epiphanies. […]

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 […]