An Unintended Fast
I remember awhile back, my friend Dan was in the midst of a fast. For one week, he was having nothing but water with cayenne and maple syrup. Midway through, he began not looking so well. “How’s it...
View ArticleSkinny Girls Roadshow from Sonoma — Hunting the Pine Mushroom
I like the thrill of the hunt. But not one for killing animals or dealing with blood, I mostly limit my hunting to wild mushrooms in the woods and groovy cowboy shirts at thrift stores. It was the...
View ArticleBreakfast with Reindeer
The other morning, I was in the kitchen with my wife and 3-year-old daughter Imogen, when I noticed something small either rolling, hopping, flitting or scurrying through the grasses down the hill. I...
View ArticleThe Christmas Disaster of 2013
All I can say is that I’m lucky I live in California. We were in the early stages of Christmas dinner with our friends, Debra and Ernie, when the stove flickered off. Frustrated, I moved the...
View ArticleA Feast of Friends
Christmas is a lot of different things to different people — a celebration of the birth of Jesus for Christians and Catholics around the world, an orgy of consumerism for most Americans, a reason to...
View ArticleTamale Claus
‘Twas the day before Christmas Eve, and all through the house, it was going down. The kids were bickering and the wife and nanny cleaning, while in the kitchen a veritable assembly line of tamale...
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