Core peel three or four pears, chop them up, and put them in a pot. Pour cranberry juice over them, leaving about an inch unsubmerged. Bring to a boil while stirring. Add a pinch each of salt and cardamom and a tablespoon or so of honey or sugar. Now reduce to a simmer and cover [...]
Now this is interesting: a study that shows healthy eating has no effect. An eight-year study showed no significant difference in cancer, disease, or obesity levels between the control group and those on a low-fat, high-fiber diet. What does this mean? Does it not matter at all what you eat? [NPR has a bit more [...]
For my Senior Thesis I want to do something on writing systems, so Steve Hibbard (my advisor and awesome linguistics professor) pointed me towards Roy Harris’ Rethinking Writing. I just started it, but consider his suggestion that “it is by no means out of the question that in some parts of the world literacy will [...]
One of my favorite words is “gestalt.” Not just for how it sounds, but for the concepts behind it. Patterns, perception, mind? It’s no wonder I was excited when John Maeda says “it is a little more than coincidence that the German word for design is gestaltung” in his book, The Laws of Simplicity (p. [...]
I swear I am not a foodie. I am not. I just like experimenting with food, is all — I can stop anytime I want to! Tonight’s dinner, by the way, included the wonderfully complex, delicate texture of quinoa along with “soyccotash” (a once-frozen mix of edamame, red peppers, and corn) and the sweet tang [...]
This weekend was Peaches’ family’s pre-Thanksgiving Thankstravaganza! We road with his Uncle Douglas to the coast, where his grandmother hosts a get-together before everyone has to leave to spend time with other family members on Thanksgiving proper. It was life at its best, most simple and fulfilling. Great food (I brought pumpkin biscotti and maple [...]
Be paranoid. Be afraid. People around you — yes, even people you know — may be harboring a dark secret: they may not be wearing deodorant! Trust no one!
Tiny Choices links to a New York Times article about a few people going a few days without deodorant. Two of the three subjects couldn’t even go [...]
Before you say anything, you should know I was thinking about shaving my head. See, doesn’t that make you feel better? Really, though, having short hair is quite nice. It’s easy to take care of, it doesn’t get in my eyes or whip my face in the wind, it looks Parisian (apparently). I even got [...]
Lips apart Flashing teeth Another world Sugared thoughts
Small regrets Penny wishes Playing light Languid shade
Another world Playing light Collecting thoughts An empty box
Hanging sheets Hanging stars Wind-chime leaves Lips apart
In winter, there are all manner of water fowl at the Rhody Gardens. Small hyper tuxedoed Buffelheads speeding along, the elegantly-muscled Canada Geese stretching their powerful wings, the furtive painted Wood Ducks peeping quietly in the reeds, and the strange large goose with a blue horned bill, large white butt, delicately zebraed wing feathers, and [...]