I heard a knock at the door, and opened it to find one of the homeowners handing me four mangoes–two that are ripe, two that need another day or so. We started talking about the coconuts that he harvests from the street, and that led to a machete and a handmade, welded striking implement cracking [...]

When I wake in Miami lately, I look out the big windows of the cottage and see mangoes reddening, preparing for their earthly descent. Outside, I look up–how many mangoes do you count here? (Hint: there are more than five. Click on the picture to see the bigger version.) Some of them are in clusters, [...]

I’ve been thinking about orbits this week, in memory of Venetia Phair, who named Pluto at age twelve (she died on Monday). The L.A. Times article that I found through my friend Laura’s

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It’s been a week, and I’ve missed writing here, so this is a longer post below. I hope that all of you are having wonderful days— Last Wednesday, my friend Dianna showed me the community garden in South Beach. With retro signs (community gardens are quietly beginning to be called Victory Gardens again across the [...]

Yesterday began in a freezer. Well, really a Bikram yoga studio of 105 degrees, but after that a freezer full of farm eggs and tropical fruit at Bee Heaven Farms in South Florida, where I picked up my order: Another red custard apple for the road—to eat in a few days, as these become very [...]