A Life Divided

Okay, so clearly I haven't been blogging here in quite awhile. I'm still not ready, though, to call this blog defunct.  Maybe on a ...

I should start this by saying that I am lame. Barbara Trapido Appreciation Week (not its official title) was actually last week, and I...

  March Forth!  Today is the only day of the year whose date is also a command, an exhortation, a rally cry. There are many things I co...

I think I'm going to skim right over how long it's been since I first started this post.  Let's just say that I believe it was ...

Photo by Nancy Crampton  I still remember the day I found out.  I was living in Eugene, OR, then, in my last year in graduate school ...

 I know that summer is over.  There are flashes of red on the trees outside my window, an additional pile of blankets on my bed.  My wi...

A few weeks ago, I made a luscious batch of Eggplant and Summer Vegetable Gratin for dinner, and Alex asked me, only half jokingly, if ther...