And this still life is life still! The least Monday feeling Monday I’ve ever had. Got dressed up to walk with KP to Walgreens to buy wipes yesterday. That was my weekend. Date night at Walgreens. I am sick of being fish bowled by Zoom. Anyone? Bueller? I am realizing what it may have felt […]
I wear this razory fishhook/of crucifix/look… It hangs right here/near the heart’s/hidden room Where a table is set for me. -Franz Wright I met this poet in college and I remember he looked like he was in pain. Just constant pain. His poems sound now to me sort of like the way he looked […]
A meditation from the newspaper early on a Sunday morning: from an article on Lafitte, Louisiana, a Gulf South town of about 4,000 people with homes built on stilts just outside the flood protection zone twenty miles south of where I type into this screen. A supplication from a man who has chosen to live […]
Easter will heretofore be marked by the ritual making of brioche. Tartine brioche. There was a recipe in Char Broil the Great Book of Grilling for salmon burgers and the suggested bun was a brioche roll. I walked to our local grocery on the lookout for some fresh made brioche buns and found only processed, […]
My Seattle in-laws are coming for a visit so I’m pulling out all my old salmon recipes to score some points! It’s still pretty summery here in New Orleans, and there is this citrus-esque stuff called yuzu really does it for me. You can blend it up as a marinade for fish, or swizzle it […]
Like salmon, KP and I will be pushing home against the snow current sweeping across I-90, also against the current of ever-thicker probability that our Mazda at 221,000+ miles will cease to function for another 3,500 miles. Against the odds, it is instinct telling us that there is no place like home for Christmas. Looking […]