[Bridalveil Falls, Yosemite, February 2011.] And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. – Raymond Carver ** Yosemite in winter: quiet, still,…
[On my table right this minute, February 2011.] Today I am working from home and baking cookies and making soup (roasted potato-leek, with spinach and a 1/2 cup of white wine) and drinking tea and cursing the rain. The cookies are because I am…
[Dad’s birthday cake, February 2011.] Oh, St. Valentine. Thank-you for giving me yet another reason to cook, though lord knows I need little excuse. This past weekend I cooked and cooked, starting on Friday and not really ending until yesterday afternoon and today I…