Do you ever crave colors? Tonight, I turned to the stove knowing only that the pasta began with purple. Soon, slender purple kale stems slicked with olive oil rested on top of strands laced with minced raw garlic from purplish paper shells, roasted cauliflower, and Italian tuna packed in oil from an oblong tin, a [...]

I spent yesterday walking Brooklyn, admiring costumed children celebrating Halloween, concentrating on painting pumpkins and unwrapping candy, while their parents picked gourds to decorate tables and Brooklyn stoops, as the foliage in New York began to look like the Maine leaves of last weekend. In Camden, Maine for the PopTech 2009 conference, I found it [...]

Most mornings, I pause briefly to admire the leaves of a plant just outside the magic cottage–some are green with red veins, some red with green veins. As though woven by chlorophyll artists, I noticed the slight tears and small holes in many of the leaves the other day. Perhaps part of the tropical storm [...]