In the Kitchen, at the Table

So last Saturday at Costco we bought two 8-ounce packages of wild-caught smoked salmon for our Sunday morning bagels. I’d also picked up some of the frozen good-for-you toaster waffles. Sunday morning came…Bill asked about the bagels. But I found…

I ended up finishing this piece on the twenty-fifth anniversary of America’s Day of Horror…9/11. Twenty-five years ago this day, widowed, I was living alone in an apartment in West Los Angeles. As was my custom, I was in the…

Do you also find these mid-summer days super for getting together with family, old friends, neighbors…happy reviving connections? July has brought my first-born grandson (whom I hadn’t seen in years) to our door…and soon good Los Angeles friends will be…