Things I read, things I ate, things I love

Just a reminder that in the summer brain-melty absence of any long meaty posts here you will find shorter dispatches over at my food tumblr, where currently I am reporting on the lovable and unlovable foods of Moscow.  If you’re still bored after that,  read Bennett on what isn’t a writer’s job, Lukas’s always wonderful [...]

Vision of Love

Waking up after only a couple of hours of sleep and immediately plunging into intense activity can lend the activity the alternately surreal and hyper-real quality of a dream; I was thinking this at 7:00 Monday morning as I wrestled my resistant cat into his carrier.  He profoundly did not want to get into the [...]