My quince stays yellow -- was it ripe? It looked ripe. Watching the news from Houston has been so sad. It’s inspiring and heartening t...

Next time you see short ribs cut like this, buy them. When it was reported a few years ago that anchorman Brian Williams had disgraced...

Isabel flew off to Seoul, South Korea this morning to spend the semester studying at Yonsei University. I drove home to Marin County t...

your summer reading Hello, he said. What are you reading? Elisabeth showed him her empty hands. Does it look like I’m read...

new treasure Back to my sweet California home, where the heat is dry, the pot legal, and all the young men have beards.   Quick re...

Credit: Library of Congress A few years ago, I helped a woman in her 80s write her memoir. I did this under the auspices of a nonp...

Time to get that dated rant off the top of this page. I’ve been consumed by a project for the last eight weeks that has nothi...

mi abuela, making tortillas Really. This is a ferocious rant.  Probably not what you came here for, but if I’m going to blog at all, th...

You can also eat it straight out of the jar.  Jennifer, looking at her phone while still in bed: There’s no way Trump is going to serv...

Overgrowth of poppies has made it hard to walk up the stairs, but I can't bring myself to tear them out.  I’d kicked my Twitter ad...

Saturday afternoon, Owen said, “What are you making for dinner?” I said, “Nothing. I’m not cooking anymore.” Owen: “I haven’...