My friend Solana swept gracefully into my apartment last night with a bottle of red wine that (almost) bore her name—a very nice Santi Valpolicella Solane—and helped me finish rolling out fettuccine through the pasta machine I plan to use more often in Brooklyn. Catching up on her recent travels (she journeys to places like [...]

My friend Solana is coming over for dinner tonight, and I walked the Union Square Greenmarket this morning, talking with the lovely people at Evolutionary Organics who like my bright dresses as much as I like their lettuces. With squash blossoms from Evolutionary (along with lettuce), ears of corn, chantrelles, baby leeks—what would you make? [...]

This morning, I jostled with chefs for pheasant eggs at the Union Square Greenmarket. With my dozen carefully placed in a separate bag, I made my way toward the strawberries, gazed at sprays of elderberry flowers, admired the graceful lines of whole heads of baby lettuce, the excessive curlicues on a sign for beautiful cheese, [...]

From sandwich construction with Holly last Wednesday, Thursday began with spider web builds outside the cottage. Tiers of webs foretold the net phases of a day that began as I imagined what an egg tasting would look like, and decided on goat cheese, tomatoes, and fresh mayonnaise for the local eggs, and I finished packing, [...]

On Friday night, I was transfixed listening to Dave Brubeck coaxing jazz with his unique time signatures from a piano on stage right—at 88, he riffs playfully, hunched over at first, then gracefully moving from one end of the keys to the other— And I woke up this morning thinking about what I might be [...]