When you’re out at the store today, fighting it out with some panicky woman over the last garnet yams, would you mind grabbing a couple of extra items?There’s probably a box, right by the exit door, for people who need a little something more than they can afford. Throw a few things in that box….
cranberry sauce
Is it because I am a super hero?No. It is because cranberry sauce is that easy.I know there are some of you who have an attachment to can shaped gelatinous “cranberry sauce”. Go ahead. Eat that. I’m not going to try to convince you out of it, because frankly, I’m wiped and I recognize that…
on the thanksgiving menu
Can you tell how excited about Thanksgiving I am?I just love a holiday that has nothing to do with my religion, that refuses to be commercialized, and that produces crazy family stories.I guess you could say that I am thankful for Thanksgiving. The Thanksgiving helpline has continued to ring around here, and the side dish…
indian pudding
I love holidays with all my being, but I usually don’t quite know what to do with them. By blood I’m half Episcopalian and half Jewish, but the Episcopalian ran off to be a New Age Guru in Texas early on, and the Jews decided that they would rather be Pagans and Buddhists and well,…
delicata
When I was eighteen, I dropped out of school and moved to San Francisco to be depressed. It’s a good city for depression. I had family out there, and I lived in their basement, worked at a famous restaurant, and ate a lot of chocolate. My cousin and I decided to take Italian lessons. We…
Occasionally I teach workshops, and I have one coming up this fall. Join me and stellar novelist 