Watermelon grounds a sculptural salad
Watermelon rolls in at 92 percent water and, we presume, 8 percent melon. Split clean, it reveals flesh so juicy red that certain meat-abhorring sects refuse to eat it. The...
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Watermelon grounds a sculptural salad
Watermelon rolls in at 92 percent water and, we presume, 8 percent melon. Split clean, it reveals flesh so juicy red that certain meat-abhorring sects refuse to eat it. The...
Between a rock and a hot plate
The modern mom cares for her children, incessantly. And for her parents, intermittently. Sometimes she tends to both child and parent, at home and abroad, at the same time. The...
Between a rock and a hot plate
The modern mom cares for her children, incessantly. And for her parents, intermittently. Sometimes she tends to both child and parent, at home and abroad, at the same time. The...
The case of the disappearing cumin
The grocery store looms large. And larger. So large that it comes with road map, rest stop and radio station. Which fills the rotisserie-scented air with the chipper pitch for...
The case of the disappearing cumin
The grocery store looms large. And larger. So large that it comes with road map, rest stop and radio station. Which fills the rotisserie-scented air with the chipper pitch for...
Tinkering in black and white
Mixed marriage calls for fortitude. Especially mine, which bonds until death opinionated New Yorker and opinionated non-New Yorker. The door to our room is posted with the crayon-earnest plea: Mom...
A form of sweet relief
Tax day is a taxing holiday. Like most, it rolls around once a year — yet always comes as a surprise. Like most, it calls for preparation. Which is to...
A form of sweet relief
Tax day is a taxing holiday. Like most, it rolls around once a year — yet always comes as a surprise. Like most, it calls for preparation. Which is to...
The good egg
Recently I met a chicken. She was the fluffy, pecking, chatty sort of chicken, keen on her afternoon snack of fresh thyme and stale graham cracker. I believe she said...