February 2, 2024
It was my good friend’s birthday (and my brother’s birthday) that had me driving back to Long Island at the start of February! This cake has become a tradition. And rightfully so. It is so dreamy! I used butterfly pea flower powder to color the frosting as it is my Read more…
May 17, 2020
Oh no. Oh no. Oh no no no no no. Ok, enough of The Shangri-Las, though they’re one of the absolute coolest girl groups from the sixties. It was a late lunch on the beach. Staten Island’s FDR Boardwalk & Beach was at a healthy buzz upon our arrival. After Read more…
November 13, 2019
A brief jaunt in East Patchogue, Long Island would have food, fun and photographs. To follow, some highlights of the area… if you happen to like vegan food, nature and cemeteries like me. Door dashed my breakfast because who the heck wants to get dressed and jump in the car Read more…
July 5, 2019
Summer is timeless yet finite. On this summer night, last night, that could have been 50 years ago or 50 years from now, I tried to capture it in pictures: its feel and potency. Because time and place are the richest variables to play within.
May 11, 2019
Sometimes people expect you to make a batch, and so you do, dutifully but no less lovingly. And sometimes you get a satisfaction by using, finally, some of the applesauce you had to buy when you last made the recipe. I hate to have jars lying about, staring at me Read more…
November 7, 2018
On my walk to work I found this between my feet. What could it mean? (Likely that I should pick my head up while I am walking…) Tucking in the dead A cute new blond at my door Morning broke the sky again You know you’re hungry when you’re ready Read more…
April 15, 2014
It was a whirlwind of a day in Montana. I am grateful to have tasted some really good vegan options… I ate well! And today that started at Bernice’s Bakery in Missoula, which has vegan bakery options. I was there bright and early with some other early birds. And I ate Read more…
August 3, 2013
Day 4 in Germany was designated a relax day. I am not staying at a hotel, after all. I am invading a family. Laundry must be done, food shopping, etc. Today I spent the day the day hanging about Kemnath. Starting with a walk to the recycling bin. This is Read more…
October 2, 2011
Shirley’s birthday dinner at Bhojan. Leftover 3 Brothers pizza, weekday, Electrician‘s. Chocolate chip cookies without the chocolate chips: “sweet treat” fix, weekend, Electrician’s Pancake’s vegan birthday cakes, Pancake’s 9th Birthday Party, Merrick
June 28, 2011
Pleasure is your hairy host waking you up with a lick to the face… Pleasure is sangria in a quiet, New England yard in good company… (Thanks for human hosts Marsha & Ron!) Pleasure is being surrounded by water. Pleasure is a lonely lighthouse and not having to crop mingling Read more…
July 1, 2010
My head is all sorts of pounding. With the school year ending Monday afternoon and my flight to Austin, Texas on Wednesday morning, my body crunks and shimmies clumsily towards grasping a new routine. But my next two weeks won’t offer this part of me, the part of me that Read more…
May 10, 2009
I used to work a few blocks away from ‘Snice, Manhattan’s awesome veg sandwich shop, and have frequented it many times. Yet through all the work lunches and meet-ups, I have stayed monogamous to their Vegan Panini. It is just perfect: a warm, toasted, roof-of-the-mouth-scraping flatbread smeared with green pesto Read more…
August 30, 2008
———————– Public Service Announcement: Like Alaska tries to reel in the ladies for its many eligible bachelors, New York City needs men. Not gay men (In Jerry‘s voice: not that there’s anything wrong with that). Not effeminate men. Men who worry about accessorizing, hair care products and ironic facial hair Read more…
July 30, 2008
Blues are the most caring, nurturing and protective personalities in the color-spectrum. They live out of their hearts and their emotions. Their life purpose is to serve, help and love others. Blues have an inner knowledge and wisdom and they feel and know what is right without needing facts or Read more…
March 2, 2008
After leaving the the bizarre temple’s grounds and embarking upon the dirt road path back to Bang Saen’s main road, I walked passed a pack of stray dogs basking in the hazy sun. Most ignored me but one of them must have read what I said in my previous post Read more…
February 19, 2008
Considering the dinner of white rice the previous evening, I woke up with a hungry vengeance, thinking satiety or bust. I fed myself an enormous breakfast that included 3 slices of toasted white bread with the reduced sugar raspberry jam that’s been all the rage here at the homestay (Note: Read more…
