A cook’s notes to self have tremendous utility to the cook, but little more than voyeuristic value to everyone else. Want a peek?
Read MoreNotetaking While Baking
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This and That
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April elicits heavy memories while ushering in lighter days. (It turns out that three years into bereavement one is whole again.)
Read MoreVenturing Out
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As pandemic polemics drown out all other noise, everything becomes part of that chorus. Here are a few of my quiet observations.
Read MoreYin Finds Yang
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Some connections are especially meaningful precisely because they are not deliberate. Here’s one linking two paintings by Agnieszka Zawisza.
Read MoreOrigami Squared
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Discover modular origami, the precision craft that combines abstract paper folding with multi-unit assembly into stunning polyhedra.
Read MoreAdvanced Adventing
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This year’s calendar combined the exuberance of gift giving with a controlled architectural streak. In other words it was perfect.
Read MoreAčiū Vilniui
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When an introduction to city coincides with new professional challenges, the photos are rushed but the sense of discovery is doubled.
Read MoreGrammar School
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Check out the cheeky-but-serious wall calendar I co-created with some other eager folks for my son’s elementary school in Warsaw.
Read MoreClay Community
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How do nearly 500 people fit into one pottery studio in Copenhagen? By doing what Danes do best: sharing with others and observing the rules.
Read MoreSummerhouse Stills
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For this text-free post I’ve selected a dozen photos to tell the fragmented story of a whole season’s worth of simple pleasures.
Read MoreA Week in Greece in June
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What makes the Aegean adventure into what it is has to do with that tranquil turquise sea made for swimming, but that is not all.
Read MoreCelebration Song
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A boy’s ninth birthday inspires contemplation of how this unlikely milestone marks not just the child’s life but motherhood, too.
Read MoreNew York, New York
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Summing up a trip that transformed both a mom and a son is a task for mixed media, metaphor, and leaving some things unexplained.
Read MoreNotes from Connecticut
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Last week I had the honor of attending a UCONN Human Rights Institute conference in memory of my father. Here is what I had to say.
Read MorePoems from Poland
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One of the ways I remember my father is through poems he loved and ones I wish we could have read together. Here is a handful.
Read MoreJapan Remembered
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Zenlike and modern but more bizarre than I expected, Japan left an impression that is as surprising today as it was ten years ago.
Read MoreLessons in Scents
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A frivolous experiment becomes a daily practice, gaining meaning and helping guide the way toward more enlightened living.
Read MoreAgnieszka Zawisza, Painter
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Click to view paintings by Warsaw-based artist Agnieszka Zawisza and read about their impact on the one taking the photographs.
Read MorePortugal, Volume Two
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A revisit can deepen one’s regard for a place and still let down expectations of better weather. The same can be said for photos.
Read MoreBirthday Calypso
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In this hasty post I talk about blogging, birthdays, packing for a trip, and my favorite way to prepare a simple pot of beans.
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