Music and Cats

Shortly after noon, I walked toward the Market, staring up at a newly blue and chilly sky. Near Rachel the Pig, I watched tourists buy freshly-thrown fish. Christina arrived wearing sunglasses. We wound our way up Post Alley to a small Thai restaurant, warmed ourselves on tom ka gai, green curry and conversation.
When we came […]

This is a photo I took yesterday from my front window, a photo not only of the sunset, but of the apartment across the street where my friend Janeen lives. No, not the apartment with the light on, but the one above it, the one that is dark.
Janeen and her son moved into that apartment […]

Last week, in my post about the 100-mile Thanksgiving Challenge, I wrote I’m sure we can find a local turkey. And then I set out to do so. Scratch that. I asked Paul to find us a local bird.
Since moving to Seattle, we’ve bought our Thanksgiving birds from a few different grocery stores, all of […]

Anyone who doesn’t understand why the tomato is sometimes called ‘love apple’ has never taken a good look at a perfectly ripe heirloom tomato. Even if pomme d’amour was a misunderstanding of pomme de Moors, a perfect tomato is one sexy fruit. I picked up this rubenesque beauty at the U District Farmers Market this […]

After four months of being locked out of the kitchen, the McKittens didn’t know quite what to make of the open-door policy instituted last Saturday. After standing uncertainly at the door for several moments, Lyra slunk into the kitchen, belly almost to the floor, to sniff all that newness. Sasha sat at the door and […]