“Blue!” Karen would say again and again as we drove through Colorado a couple Tuesdays ago, referring to the wonderful shades and shapes of the clouds of Western Colorado, the wide sky an airy tableaux too large to fit in one frame. (Note: This is the third of eight posts on this recent road trip. [...]

Karen and I left Salt Lake City two Monday mornings ago, lighting out for the upward route from Utah into Colorado. We knew it was going to be quite a day of driving—heeding the roadtrip code of exploring detours—as I pulled over early in the day for the antlers on a garage, and then noticed [...]

Last Sunday I returned to Brooklyn after a few months in Santa Cruz, and I traveled back in my favorite mode: a circuitous roadtrip. (This is the first post of eight, one for each day of the trip.) Leaving San Jose on August 1st in the quiet of 5 a.m., I took my friend Matt’s [...]

Last night, I finally journeyed out to Flushing for noteworthy Chinese food with new friends, starting the night with Qingdao at M & T 美而特 Restaurant. We were fortunate to have Tricia Wang in our party; besides being an incredibly enthusiastic champion of certain dishes, she made sure (in Mandarin) that we ordered the freshest [...]

Shortly before I left for Santa Cruz in May, I invited my friends Sarah and Fil to a grains dinner party at my apartment—and I have missed them during my summer away. On Wednesday, Sarah, who is an artist as well as a great cook and hostess, invited me over to her apartment for a [...]