time reversal

I spent much of yesterday afternoon wandering around the Christchurch Botanic Gardens. It’s the equivalent of May here, so all of the rhododendrons were in bloom. The whole place smelled wonderful. I walked around in the grass barefoot and smelled the flowers and took a nap in the sun on the golf-course-length grass. I figured [...]

While out in Colorado, Ruth and I made pizza dough one night; inspired by how easy this was, I decided to try making some real bread. Mark Bittman, my favorite Internet person, recently posted a recipe for no-knead bread to the Times, so I figured that was the natural place to start. The recipe was [...]

The entire time I’ve lived in Berkeley it only rained once, for about an hour at night. Saturday, it decided to REALLY rain. I packed up all my bags for Pole, and planned to drive them to my office and leave them there while I dropped off my car. However, there was a football game [...]