“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.” ~ Rumi Last week I read about Lia Ditton, a 38-year old long-distance rower who plans to row 4,500 nautical miles from Japan to San Francisco in early 2019. It will take between 5 and 6 months and she will be completely alone the […]
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence […]
“Good crosswords connect to everything in life.” ~Will Shortz, New York Times crossword editor and NPR puzzle master I love puzzles. I am constantly solving a jigsaw puzzle, Sudoku or crossword. A cruciverbalist of the highest order, I get the same high filling in a crossword clue as I used to get when shelving books […]
“Yeah, we went shit spelunking,” he finished, leaning back in his chair and topping off his wine. “What else were we gonna do?”At a dinner party, the young man was regaling our table with the tale. “It was a pug,” he added, as if that explained everything. So the story goes like this. His wife […]
I fell in love with Anthony Bourdain on a Hawaiian beach. A friend had loaned me her paperback copy of Kitchen Confidential and I vividly recall reading a particular page. I earmarked it, read it aloud to David. “He gets it,” I said. “Not just about the food. But about how cuisine helps us experience […]
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby June 20 marks the summer solstice, or midsummer, the longest day of the year […]
