A favorite recipe for a household staple that packs well, nourishes on the go, and so far seems to be a hit with everyone.
Read MoreFlower Show
Flowers are my favorite gift, a great subject to photograph, and always more than the sum of the stems making up an arrangement.
Read MoreStrategy for One
An internal strategic process brings together the professional and the personal, leading to clarity and long-sought answers.
Read MoreLocation, Location, Location
The famous three things to consider when making decisions about real estate are just as important to online property.
Read MoreDream Salad
In this essay I turn my analytical tools toward the phrases I sometimes record upon waking from my language-driven dreams.
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High Middle Childhood
Photos of boys of a certain age enjoying their winter break. Also, a glimpse into the origin of the phrase in the title.
Read MoreNew Year’s Nocturne
As one year ends and another one begins, the sky explodes. Here’s what I caught on camera in the second minute of 2018.
Read MoreDeck the Halls 2017
A handful of photos documenting December wonders plus a brief confession about my experience of this year’s holiday season.
Read MoreAutumn in Warsaw
The brisk air, the fading light, rust-hued leaves rustling and decaying—I come back to all this with revelry every year.
Read MoreOlá Portugal!
Photos and thoughts summing up my impression of Portugal: a place less “southern” than expected and bracingly unostentatious.
Read MoreA Thing or Two About Turning Forty
Contrary to what I imagined, and definitely against most that I’ve been told, turning forty is not so monumental at all.
Read MoreThe New Fuji: Early Days
Have I finally found my ideal toolkit for capturing images with precision and ease? So far, things look promising.
Read MoreCaptions for a Late Summer Sky
Some inspiration from a glimpse of the Mokotów sky caught one half hour before sunset and minutes before a burst of rain.
Read MoreOre of the Woods
Longer than anything I’ve written since college, this essay is about a summer cabin and a daughter’s memories of her father.
Read MoreEasements
On ways that working has eased my recent suffering, or rather the completion of work, the proof of my capacity for it.
Read MoreSurviving My Father
Reflections on my father’s funeral and one remarkable photo taken 11 years, 11 months, and 11 days before the day he would die.
Read MoreEastern Easter
A springtime feast for two that seems to break all the rules can still be a festive celebration of the holiday spirit.
Read MoreHead Lice: a Memory
It turns out that having lice is not as bad as it seems—and reminiscing about the experience can be downright wonderful.
Read MoreFresh Pix
A cross-section of some vibrant cross-sections I shot in my kitchen to illustrate an upcoming food essay for Magazyn Wino.
Read MoreAn Education
It’s unclear who had the bigger job this time around: the one forced to do the writing or the one forced to do the forcing.
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