what does an average middleclass person in the developed world have to really fight for? stand up for? do capital-S Something about? plenty ...

we have been over my haphazard recipe cataloging skills before. did I ever think I'd need to change my habit of just sorting through a ...

the wind and air currents in our neighborhood are conspiring to toss little snow pixies up against the window above the desk. I'm imagin...

the general if mild exhaustion of this month feels pretty normal by now. but it is Thanksgiving week at last. there shall be time for sleepi...

Field Notes sends me emails every so often (it's okay, I invited them to), almost always on Wednesdays, announcing the random Wednesda...

about three weeks ago, the store brand of butter was on sale. so I bought six boxes. and then I realized most of it was salted instead o...

it was shady on the west face of Badger Mountain this morning. the inward corners between each ridge were especially cool. at the crest...

apparently Rosa Parks wrote recipes on the backs of envelopes too . really, is there anything else as useful to do with the back of an envel...

occasionally I still get emails from a little caribbean fusion restaurant in Houston, Texas. I haven't unsubscribed from those yet, for ...

on a very smudgy half-sheet of paper (pictured below) that usually lives in my yellow folder of recipes, I have scribbled: mum's pie c...

across the road and down the hill from campus, there is a tiny Thai restaurant tucked into a strip mall: Basil Thai . there are mirrors on t...

as coffeeshops go, Greyhouse is a pretty nice one. it gets crowded, but the ambiance is great (all that brick and art, and the big windows) ...

beauty is important. it's somehow easy and impossible to forget that. Wednesday: Waffles [...] A photo posted by SymmetryBreakfast (@s...

there is a tradition among my fellow scholars at Purdue, that after all the back-to-school meetings that happen on the Friday before classe...

because I can, I shall decree Sundays a day off from writing reviews-of-things. I'll post some pictures-of-things instead. scribbles...

a week or so before our roadtrip to New York for 1. the Computers & Writing conference , 2. friend Fernando's wedding and 3. randoml...

I might love it if somebody decided to pay me to review all the sushi ever. what a daunting and delicious task that would be.  alas, to...

foods I should eat more often (but not too often) because I love them so much: - brie - beets - gnocchi - sweetcorn - dark chocolate ...

it has been a week of ups and downs and chaos, post-vacation highs and crunch-time woes. but slivers of wonderfulness got mixed in with the ...

friend Patti and I have driven miles and miles and miles in the last week. across all the states between Indiana and upstate New York. up an...