I am so honored and thrilled to share that I’ve written a guest post on my recent weaving adventures in Oaxaca over at Fringe Association, one of my all-time favorite blogs run by the illustrious Karen Templer. Many thanks to Oaxaca Cultural Navigator for the opportunity and Karen for the honor of sharing my experience with her community. You […]
At the latest DC Food Swap, my friend Clementina of Open Door Dining brought the creamiest ricotta cheese (recipe here) and sourdough loaves with crackling crusts. You know how everyone has an Achilles’ heel in the kitchen, that one thing that fails time after time? Bread-making was that for me. For a long while, I couldn’t make […]
Spring feels late in DC. It’s not really late, of course. The seasons are not beholden to our human calendars and arrive on their own schedule. The magnolias are blooming and my potted plants are waking up with bright green growth, but the air is still biting cold. I find myself reminiscing about the omnipresent […]
One thing Texas does seriously right is breakfast. Scones, muffins, danishes and doughnuts – they’re all fancy words for “cake.” After the initial sugar and caffeine high, I crash and burn 30 minutes later and need another snack before lunchtime. But a breakfast taco with scrambled eggs, cheese, beans or potatoes, and a slathering of salsa […]
You know you’ve done SXSW right when you come home with blisters, a sunburn, and a head cold. The five-day music festival in Austin, TX is a non-stop tidal wave of concerts, panels, and parties that pour out of every nook and cranny of the city. Music blasts from bike shops, churches, warehouses, street corners […]
During this time of year, when thoughts turn to Compassion, Giving, and Absolute Love, I can’t think of a person who embodies these values more than my sister. When I think of her, I’m reminded of Albert Einstein’s thoughts on Compassion: A human being is a part of the whole called by us ‘Universe,’ a part […]
It is difficult to acknowledge the merit of normalcy after traveling to a place that abruptly shakes your sleeping inner-self awake. Your feet long for rocks to climb. Your body revolts against the cubicle and the office chair. Your eyes strain against the straight lines of skyscrapers and yearn to drink in blue glaciers melting […]
One week will feel like months. You alone will bear witness to each meeting, vision, and song. No one will remember it for you. Because of this, each small moment will expand to hold multitudes. No one will ask if we can listen to someone other than Björk or Natasha Khan. And no one will tell […]
This is it. After months of thinking and talking about nothing else (and subsequently driving my friends up the wall, as in: did you know Icelandic water is the cleanest in the world? doesn’t this scar look like Iceland? isn’t it crazy how 54% of Icelanders believe in elves? have you seen this hiLARious SNL Björk impersonation?), […]
Beautiful June, sweltering June, has been a hot mess of awesome. I embarked on journeys (Plural! As in, more than one!) to the deep South for the first time ever, where I attended my first-ever drive-in movie (Snow White and the Huntsman exceeded all of my campy expectations); met a voodoo priestess; drove as fast as […]
