Why are there so very many spider webs on kthread? This is how my day begins—with morning webs draped across cacti like necklaces tossed off by flappers, the many strands tangled after a night’s revelry (certainly explains the dew), or hovering like white noise, catching stray new light as though a cornet, and often working [...]

I looked out the kitchen window this morning, put my hand on the sill to steady myself. My heart beat quickly as I slipped silently outside, moving shyly. The sun lit the strands stretching to anchor the webs—I have begun looking for the fastening points, the fancy work at the edges, the taut lines apart [...]

Yesterday, I traded stories with my friend Dianna when we met for lunch at Go-Go’s. With buttery empanadas (try the steak chimichurri and the shrimp scampi) and salads full of good things, I can see why they know Dianna’s name here (I think they will soon learn mine). Here, she gestures how she cannot be [...]

Last night, Andrew, Jessica, Annie, and I made ravioli, stretching pasta sheets until you could see through them with sautéed mushrooms, asparagus, garlic, and parmesan: Sprinkled with Hawaiian red salt and feathered with chives, the cooked ravioli rested in a butter sauce. I realized when taking the picture below that the chives had fallen in [...]

The biscuits were baking, the jam cooling, and the bacon sputtering yesterday morning, for brunch (not Grease, though the bacon rendered plenty) was the word—brunch was the time, was the place, was the motion; brunch was the way we were feeling. A small group of the leading lights in digital innovation filled the magic cottage [...]