Hey folks, I know this is long but it is a big subject and  I try to make up for my lack of brevity with an equal lack of frequency. To those of you who hang in there and read the whole thing- thanks.
 
Sally Swift recently posted on making an end… Read full post »

The making of food, the love of making food, is more than the love of ingredients and their preparation. Cooking is a gift to ourselves and others. Many chefs, maybe most all of the really good ones have an abiding love of not only food but the act of feeding.… Read full post »

While I consider myself an uninterested athiest I believe that Chritianity's greatest potential (read unmet potential) is the religions capacity for Grace. More than Hinduism that seems to call for a cosmic balance sheet of rights and wrongs and Buddhist belief in overcoming the human condition, Chri… Read full post »

 I intend every day to write something here. Of course by the time I get done reading all of the interesting things the rest of you have written and commented here and there it's getting late and I get up awfully early. So damn you and your good writing. Tonight I'll… Read full post »

   We sat on lawn chairs down the hill from a pre civil war cabin in central Tennessee. It was late fall and the sky was gunmetal grey. I knew that if I could touch them with my tongue the clouds would taste like iron. I held Randy's hand in mine,… Read full post »