From October 12, 2011

From October 12, 2011

From October 12, 2011

From October 12, 2011

From October 12, 2011

From October 12, 2011

From October 12, 2011

From October 12, 2011

I love the word wax. A few ways you might wax:
WAX ELOQUENT
WAX ENTHUSIASTIC
WAX EUPHORIC
WAX INDIGNANT
WAX LYRICAL
WAX NOSTALGIC
WAX PHILOSOPHIC
WAX PHILOSOPHICAL
WAX POETIC
WAX PROFESSIONAL
WAX RHAPSODIC
WAX SENTIMENTAL

From October 1, 2011

From October 1, 2011

From October 1, 2011

This a recent interviewee, a 90-year-old man who once ran several institutions for young girls put into the correctional system. He is also a Buddhist, an anti-war activist, ex-Navy, and studied Tai Chi in the US and China for the last 40+ years. Also: a proud gardener.

Am I Dreaming?

From October 1, 2011

From October 1, 2011

From October 1, 2011

From October 1, 2011

From October 1, 2011

From October 1, 2011

From October 1, 2011

From October 1, 2011

Things I want to make as soon as I have time:
these chocolate sour cherry cookies
black olive cookies
tomato cobbler with gruyere crust
steamed buns

I woke up with one line in my head, one that I repeated over and over, in my dream: "Give me your stimulus plan, and I will give you pizza. Stimulus plan; pizza."

From September 21, 2011

This morning, I interviewed Sister Francis Gerard Kress, a 96-year-old environmental activist who has been a nun for 70 years. She said her nickname was "TM," or "troublemaker." She told me she knew she wanted to be a nun as early as age 7.