Grand Ending

Days before the year’s close, another dismantling was on display. Here is my words-and-images record of this remarkable event.

Cream of Beet

Filling yet light, this easy dish is both a fresh take on Polish holiday cooking and a case of warming all-purpose winter fare.

A selection of captions inspired by a photograph of the view from our kitchen windows on a snow-topped Warsaw day.

Reflections on a tradition we adopted in 2015, which lights up the dark winter mornings with a steady uptake of jolly cheer.

An inquiry into how writing about the same thing in different languages really does amount to writing about different things.

An open letter, pointedly unsent, urging everyone to minimize the amount of e-mail occupying inboxes, to-do-lists, and minds.

On the fifteenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, a sunset scene in Warsaw, Poland, is a symbolic comment on the tragedy.

Mushroom hunting is not a fringe discipline in Poland. It is a main event: purposeful, trance-inducing, and worthy of analysis.

July 12, 2016 in JOURNAL

My son, Anker, caught at the perfect juncture between playing in the sand and having decidedly outgrown the sandbox.

June 25, 2016 in JOURNAL

Outside our windows, a construction site roars to life at seven o’clock in the morning. But when evening comes, quiet falls.

June 12, 2016 in JOURNAL

A moonshot of an observation inspired by a shot of the moon captured on the evening of my son Anker’s sixth birthday.

May 30, 2016 in PORTFOLIO

A hasty status on my food writing venture, overshadowed by an update on the mental state of one still living out of boxes.

Some reasons for choosing grammatical capitalization format in writing—even when a brand has a non-standard name in its logo.

I’m pleased to announce I’ve been invited to write about food for Poland’s premier wine culture bimonthly, Magazyn Wino.

Part-anecdote, part-offer from the puzzled owner of a mint-condition series of toy monsters inspired by classic literature.

Oddly quiet photos of a sweeping home improvement project, along with a few words about living through the experience.