There is kindness in this place, this New Mexico place, where I live. I have probably walked to the post office 12-15 times since I’ve been here (23 days), and in that time, I have four times been offered rides by cars and mostly trucks passing by.  That is 1/3-1/4 of the time!  In my [...]

what  a quiet holiday it has been. quiet and loud, loud with richness, with fun, with love, with adventures.  I think this is the voice of my life in New Mexico thus far– quiet and loud and rich. We woke up and played with the doggies and had a coffee-taste-test-a-thon, and then proceeded to make [...]

Today, December 09, 2010, I woke for the third morning in my new home in New Mexico. I ate cornmeal pancakes (made with the Bloody Butcher flour!  that we grew at Henry’s Farm), and I helped load my friends, Val and Michelle, back into Michelle’s car– her trusty vehicle that brought me here on Tuesday [...]

I’m in apple p-p-p-pie land right now.  Slash I can’t get this idea out of my head.  When I began to make the pie, my brother, Josh, says, “Make an oreo crust”– I defensively respond, “aw, man, oreo’s suck.” Josh says, “they don’t suck.” I say, “they’re crap.  they’re hardly real food.  they are made [...]

It is Thursday night, the night of Thanksgiving, and I am in bed in my parents’ house in Michigan.  My brother has to wake in two hours to go work at Black Friday.  aagh! I never took off the clothes in which I slept today, and I never brushed my teeth– both things that seem [...]

in uptown (or downtown) Normal today, I overheard a college student, telling his visiting parents, “It’s like…a real establishment.  Not like franchised or anything.  …  It’s, like, where I take my dates.” and I thought to myself, “huzzah!  good for the universe that I can hear a college student on the street, recommending  a non-franchised [...]

I suppose the time has come for an update.  I sit in Eureka Public Library…a little ‘under the weather’ as they say, meaning that my nose is runny and my body achey.  and healing.  I have slept 30 hours the past three nights which is especially amazing seeing as one of the three nights I [...]

This weekend, I preserved food.  That’s about it.  dehydrating molly’s delicious apples and nashi (asian pears), making and freezing pesto and chimichurri and pesto sauce, and making and canning tomato sauce.  Huzzah.  In my perception, it is encompassing work.  Work that takes up time and days AND is so fulfilling.  because… this winter!  I will [...]

the hottest july on record.    I know.  It’s august. woah woah woah.  It is wednesday afternoon.  hump day as they say, although for me, it sort of is and sort of isn’t.  It is sort of like the whole week build up to this wild wild wildness, friday.  the long long day.  high and lows [...]

My life is ever-continuingly awesome.  enough said.  maybe there is more to say.  slash it is past my bedtime.  and charlie didn’t coerce me to eat this chocolate bar.  slash I am loving it.  My life and chocolate bars.