Category Archives: love After four weeks visiting birthdays past, for this final March post, it is time for a birthday present. On Friday I will turn 59, not a particular milestone, or great event, but another birthday I’m grateful to be celebrating. I am not only writing about the present tense but the present I am giving myself […]  Learning to cook like learning anything is hardly ever linear. I don’t remember a time in my life when I wasn’t interested in food—as more than just sustenance. My first culinary experiment was when I was about four, and if you’re a long-time reader you already know the story of the Oreos and the Amercian cheese […]  I have no idea how long I’ll live, and though I doubt it I’ll make it to 100, turning 50 felt like the halfway point for me. As my birthday drew closer I was dreading it in a way that I never had before. It didn’t bother me when I turned thirty or even forty, […]  It was my 20th birthday and my boyfriend said he had something special planned. We had one of those on-again-off-again relationships, but at that moment we were on. My birthday is March 31st, one of those days when the weather is predictably unpredictable. That year the night was a balmy and windy 72°. The evening was […]  Imagine you’re watching a movie and you can see something terrible is about to happen, but the characters have no idea it is the moment before things change forever. Because they aren’t aware of the future they’re not drinking in every second or paying extra close attention. They are having a regular or in this […] |
|
.png){kind=small}
.png){kind=small}
.png){kind=small}
.png){kind=small}
.png){kind=small}
.png){kind=small}
.png){kind=small}
.png){kind=small}
.jpg)
