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 anything [...]

Tomorrow, April 7th, is my son Trevor’s 18th birthday and we will head down the coast for a celebratory dinner at Nepenthe with family, a time-honored tradition. Trevor was born on a mountaintop, twelve miles or so south of the restaurant, in a beautiful room overlooking Dolan canyon, on land owned by his paternal grandfather [...]