Leah Eskin

Pomegranate is a heavy fruit. In ancient tale and tradition, it's a stand-in for fertility (count those seeds!), power (check out that crown) and demise (taste the tannins). That's a...

Family gatherings come in all sizes, and ours is XS. Mom, her three, our spouses and children make 14. One tableful. Mom decided we would celebrate Ben's 50th, though the...

Lavender strikes me as lazy. I've got a patchy patch, and every year I imagine the long, limp limbs will blossom into purple profusion. Instead I get a few pale...

Choose the right path — so says the sermon, convocation and nature guide. But if a trailhead offers only one route, and you've hiked it every autumn forever, you're good...

The night sky, as I once understood it, held big moon and small stars. I assumed that the astronaut could roll down the rocket window and run his fingers through...

The word-worker, on vacation, tries to avoid her colleagues. Though she shelters in concert hall, museum and woods, words sneak in. Sighing, she picks up a book. Not the breezy...

Upside-down tomatoes used to be a thing. Better than right-side-up tomatoes, they were upside-down. That, and on TV. The scenes, shot film-noir style, showed a plant strung up by its...

At the beach, we had vodka flecked with lemon. We had bike rides striped with sunburn. We had crabcakes topped with intrigue. What was in the tartar sauce? Couldn't say....

Houseguests can be ingrates. Once, I invited an asparagus family to the garden, and the whole clan stalked away. Perhaps my hostess skills need some work. Apparently to make asparagus...

Lunch on the town is all long skirts, tall drinks and sunny salads. What's better than old friends and new outfits? We lunched, we lounged, we lingered. Sans coffee, we...