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Food Talk!
I’ve been asked to give a food talk at Peak Flavors Fest this September in Estes Park, CO. So what should I talk about?
View Article“All I’ve got is this one breath, and if I’m lucky, I get another…”
I’m on the email list for Berkeley’s amazing Freight & Salvage. Sam Baker will be performing this Friday. I don’t know much about him but his words cut straight through me. From the Freight’s...
View ArticleStill Learning
I got an email today from a yoga teacher and writer which began like this: “I am a huge fan of your journey both as a yogi and as a writer. That you have used yoga as a way to transform your life...
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The Inside-Out Body
I’ve come to realize, after decades of wrestling with my body image, how much happier I am when I live from the inside out. For the last few months, I’ve been asking my body, what do I really need....
View ArticleThis is water…this is water…
Thinking about my boys going to college in two years, thinking about what I hope for them. This, from David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech at Kenyon College in 2005, is my hope: “The really...
View ArticleStill laughing, Still Crying, Still Living…
…was my answer when a friend asked me how I was. I’m 55, and this is an incredible time of life. Taking care of the generation behind us and before us. I see doors opening, and closing and I try to see...
View Article“Ravenous” Five Years Later
When I published Ravenous five years ago, I wanted to document my journey of losing weight and making peace with my body. I examined the difference between real and processed food, I visited farms,I...
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Food Memoir Panel at Litquake!
Delighted to be on a food memoir panel for Litquake SF! Sunday, October 9, 2:15 at 777 Valencia Street in SF. So if you’re in the neighborhood, come on by! Culinary Memoirs: Why We Write about Food,...
View ArticleA Poem for These Times
The breeze at dawn Has secrets to tell you Don’t go back to sleep You must ask For what you really want Don’t go back to sleep People are going back and forth Across the doorsill Where the two worlds...
View ArticleJoint Statement from California Legislative Leaders on Result of Presidential...
Senator Kevin de León Wednesday, November 09, 2016 SACRAMENTO – California Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) and California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Paramount)...
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