Magnificent Octopus

About this time last summer, my espresso machine clogged up. After several failed attempts to clean it, I gave up the double espresso filter...

Train travel is an exercise in suspension, of both time and space; the days blur, we are carried suspended across the land, just above it. A...

The One-Straw Revolution , by Masanobu Fukuoka, is a "manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge" that cha...

The man that cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot. — André Breton I visualize everything galloping on tomatoes. I lov...

It's tomato season! That is, I'm daily plucking cherry tomatoes by the handful from my hanging basket plant. I love tomatoes! Here...

Waking Sleeping in on a weekend morning. I wake to find the girl perched at the foot of the bed painting my toenails. I don't know wheth...

Today Helena plucked one ripe little tomato off its vine — the first of the season — and popped it in her mouth. Her face radiated with exqu...