I am on the Monterey peninsula for the month of July–a return to family, friendships and a slower way of life, and 3 days into it it feels pretty good. Life is not linear, a friend told me recently, as I struggled to make sense of my path and where it was leading. Should I [...]

I had an assignment this week–well, that is 3 recipes I needed to work on for the Cherry Board, one of the many food related things I do. Nothing fancy, no fireworks or port flamed cherries, no words, or drawn out poetic connections, not even headnotes. So, in a way, it is that much easier–it’s [...]

  Heading down the coast for my son Trevor’s birthday on Tuesday turned out to be more of an adventure than usual. When I arrived to Big Sur the road had just closed north of the State Park due to a slide. No one knew what was going on, even the Caltrans worker didn’t know [...]