Doves Today

I don't know why, but our refrigerator is overcrowded with sauces, condiments and pickled things. Today I had to perform an olive purge....

With summer comes abundance. The garden overflows with fruit and blossom.

When I visited the California Heritage Museum, I was attracted by the displays of decorative arts that reflected the California lifestyle of...

This weekend I went to the 8th Annual Antique and Contemporary Tile Sale at the California Heritage Museum in Santa Monica. I learned abou...

Tootsie Farklepants tagged me with a meme. Here's the deal: The rules: 1. Pick up the nearest book. 2. Open to page 123 3. Find the fif...

This is my Dad eating caviar off a trash-can lid. It's Cincinnati, Ohio, 1968 or 1969. We lived on a winding cul-de-sac in a subdivisio...

Sometimes in life you just have to pull the car over to the side of the road. In the more than ten years since I've lived in L.A., I...

I had a day to myself. I was wearing a fine cotton tunic that was the clear, pure aqua of water in a swimming pool. And it seemed like I saw...

[The Man I Love] took a trip to New York, and brought back some treasures for me from a little Tibetan import shop downtown. They carry si...