My friend Pilar has just opened an empanada shop with her husband Juan on Washington Avenue (right next to Lincoln Road) in Miami’s South Beach called Half Moon Empanadas. The food is as satisfying as the great typefaces in the logo, and Pilar tells me everything is made in the restaurant: My favorite is the [...]

Skirting the storms about the magic cottage this morning, I began thinking about seasons in Miami. Humming Nico’s “The Fairest of the Seasons” (on last.fm here), I thought about how difficult it is to measure time when the leaves are always green. Other leaves near the magic cottage have small tears, holes, but these have [...]

Were I to be scrupulously honest, I suppose I might admit this is less a salad and more a deconstructed guacamole. But as I’m not so inclined, this recipe is a light dressing, a sharp uppermost layer for soft, green flesh encrusted with red salt that sparkles like garnets on top of the fruit Jenne [...]

My beautiful friend Jenne drove with me to the end of the world today–or, at least, what felt like the end of the world as the road ended and we got out to look around. She smiled as we heard the sounds of things uncivilized approaching… and an ATV trio rumbled past in their mudded [...]

In late morning, the light through rippled glass dances, lines appear for a moment and reappear, reminding me that we only see the parts of light filtered into wavelengths we can comprehend. And the rest? Whimsy just out of sight…