Obviously, for my daily essay on a delight, yesterday I wrote about Opening Day: Opening Day! What a delight! The sun was shining. We opened the windows. We ate peanuts and drank beer. Why isn’t Opening Day a national holiday? So much better than … [Read more...]
Madison Monday: Six Courses
July 2, 2018 By 2 Comments
Caprese-style bruschetta Coming back from Paris wasn’t easy. As a friend said, you can leave Paris, but Paris never leaves you. I haven’t written much about going to Paris because I’m afraid to wrap words around it. It feels impossible. For a … [Read more...]
Madison Monday: The List, 2018
February 5, 2018 By 2 Comments
I looked back through old Madison Monday posts this afternoon, trying to find some ideas for what to write about. There are a surprising number of posts with ‘winter’ or ‘snow’ or ‘cold’ in the title. I can only presume this is because being mostly … [Read more...]
Madison Monday: MLK Day Reprise
January 15, 2018 By Leave a Comment
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a re-post of one of my very first Madison Monday's. I love this book and I love this story for the way it demonstrates how our racial reality becomes taken-for-granted as natural and given, even though it … [Read more...]
Preserving Places: The Coffee Shop and the Corner Store
April 28, 2017 By 4 Comments
This is roughly the speech I gave on Friday at Preserving Places: Indiana's Statewide Historic Preservation Conference in lovely Wabash, Indiana. Great conference and a great town. I was so impressed with all the amazing things happening around our … [Read more...]
The Great Macaron Experiment: Prologue
July 14, 2016 By Leave a Comment
So there's life before you've tasted a macaron and life after you've tasted a macaron. I discovered this last November in Savannah, which seems an entirely appropriate place to cross the great macaron divide. I had heard talk of macarons, mostly from … [Read more...]
Madison Monday: Undeniably Indiana
July 13, 2015 By 1 Comment
Madisonians and other Hoosiers, here's your chance to tell your uniquely Indiana story and have it preserved for all time as well as sharing it with a larger audience. Indiana University Press is celebrating the Indiana bicentennial in 2016 with a … [Read more...]
Sometimes in February…
February 18, 2015 By 4 Comments
Sometimes in February, I lose it. I find myself sitting at our dining room table, eating a perfectly nice meal with my lovely husband, unable to stop crying. Or for a week in a row, I wake up every morning and seize on the ugliest thought I can … [Read more...]
Parker house pretzel rolls and a train of thought
December 30, 2014 By 1 Comment
Today I made these Parker house pretzel rolls. They didn't turn out as pretzel-y as the picture. And they might not have been as done as they could have been. Neither of these things kept me from eating three rolls, straight out of the pan, right out … [Read more...]
About Far from Home
August 28, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Stories are not like children; you do have favorites. “Far from Home” is one of mine, so forgive me in advance if I have a lot to say about this one. I am so, so pleased that it’s published and out there in the world. If you like the story, you can … [Read more...]
