No maps for these territories

I am going to Seattle in 21 hours. Woo! I’ll be there for the rest of the week, gettin’ all librarian-y. As usual message me to meet up. I am looking forward to blowing this pop stand, tiny new red computer in tow. It is the first conference for my new baby, which is so [...]

I have no idea if their products are available outside northern California, but I have been consistently impressed with the Sierra Nevada Cheese Company‘s products. Their cream cheese, which is what I’ve been getting is amazing. Tonight I tried their butter, which is shockingly good; almost like firm chevre, but mild and lovely and amazingly [...]

I am utterly engrossed by the new book I’m reading, by which I mean, I sat down to read at seven and looked up, startled, a little while ago when it turned ten. The book is The Shadow of the Torturer, which is the first book of The Book of the New Sun, by Gene [...]

Or: I keep having trouble with this idea of starting the year, and keep wanting to do it again properly If the three years that I have been back in California — three years and five months, to be disturbingly precise — have taken on any meaning at all in the larger scheme of my [...]