The way to Christmas this year routed through marzipan, with this beautiful apple cake and filling of lovely Charlottesville heirloom apples from local Albemarle Baking Company on the drive from Brooklyn to Atlanta. And then there was dancing. With my sisters Kat and Kass, I surprised one of my mom’s dance classes as we threw [...]

I began the year in sunny Miami, and prospects feel bright for this year ahead. This podcast is full of tributes, the last track explicitly so. Have a lovely Sunday afternoon…(playlist below; more podcasts in kthread spins) Sunday kind of snow “The Girl From Ipanema” – (N.A.S.A. remix) “Never Come Around” – La Sera “Singer [...]

What? Your family doesn’t dance around the garage in costumes at midnight Christmas Eve? Previously: The Rolyat Five (2008) and last year’s experimental piece with a great cameo from our grandfather.

Image courtesy Fred Truman. This fall, I was fortunate to be able to have a class of smart graduate students at NYU’s ITP think through community interactions during our fourteen weeks together. (You can see our syllabus for “communitp” and go through our blog archive and Twitter account for more details.) At the conclusion of [...]

With all the fun of December, Thanksgiving photos never quite made it up here. It’s a little late, but shall we? I made my usual early start (5 a.m.) to cook down the list, pausing for a moment before I made the smashed potatoes in early afternoon. Knowing I am mostly finished by that point, [...]