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From Meet Joe Black

June 25, 2009

LS and I were watching Meet Joe Black last night in the living room. Soup, movie and a warm summer night. Really beautiful. I’d forgotten how gorgeous the dialog is in this movie. Moving and heavy. It gives you pause. Makes you feel butterflies in your stomach. William Parrish’s dialog with Claire in the helicopter […]






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In search of home

June 9, 2009

Today, I'm craving quiet nights in, lounging on my own furniture, in an apartment that I can call my own.  I crave candles and music and wine with old friends.  I want a closet that houses the clothes I love, not the clothes I managed to fit into two suitcases.  I want photographs on my […]






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Pieces of home

March 27, 2009

Sea salt from Peloponese Greece. Pulvoron from Goldilocks California. Crackers from Korea. Ingredients from home that somehow make us feel a little less far away from the smells and flavors of the kitchens we grew up in. Last week, a sudden burst of gratitude came over me while Maria and I were making dinner in […]






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