Leah Eskin

Nature nurtures bud and branch at some remove from civilization. Generally, a long remove. Which is why you spend summer strapped into a hot car, pursuing a cool breeze. Mornings,...

Spaghetti starts out on the straight and narrow. Yet it seems drawn to hot water. One dip and it goes slack, twisted, tangled. Spaghetti winds up a delicious mess. No...

Electricity is brilliant. Consider the electric mixer, which never tires of turning in circles. Unlike the acoustic whisk, operated via stamina. Consider the automatic dishwasher, eager to rinse and scrub....

It was a perfect season. The Shamrocks won every game. And every playoff game. Until the championship game. The season was short, and sweet. On spring afternoons, 13 boys and...

Hard times impose hard choices: Dine out or eat in? To which we respond, emphatically: Yes. Dining counts as necessity and luxury. And we remain steadfast in our commitment to...

Have you seen the Buddha's hand? Not the real Buddha's real hand, obviously. The Buddha's hand that reaches out from the produce aisle and beckons, eerily, to the passerby? Its...

The movie owes much to technology. Consider the great leaps forward: Sound. Color. Junior Mint. Indeed, the modern viewing public rarely indulges in the oldie that lacks, minimally, sound and...

The affair came on suddenly: intense, foolhardy, brief and disastrous. Which is to say, predictable. What else could befall the happily married cook who steps out on her longtime cookware?...

The middle-school scholar practices thrift. Mindful of the high cost of consonants and the credit crunch in vowels, she conducts her electronic correspondence with concision. To wit: WotRUup2? A more...