I come to you today fresh off the high of my Words and Pictures: Creative Writing from Visual Art class taught on Zoom for the UCLA Extension’s Writers’ Program…. Continue reading »

DEEP FAKE DINING          Our culinary highlight this summer was our Faux of July: grilling Impossible Burgers, swilling non-alcoholic beer and inhaling strawberry shortcake, the biscuits made with cultured vegan… Continue reading »

Here we are again–traipsing through the summer reruns as I get ready for my October Creative Cafe: Food & Writing class for UCLA Extension’s Writers’ Program. For more on that,… Continue reading »

Time for summer reruns and here’s a good one! When I found What’s Eating Us, Part 1, lurking in my archive (May, 2017, Covid inspired Part II is April, 2020)… Continue reading »

I have been meaning to post this ever since it was published at the Love,Dog site last December, but time being what it is, and often getting away from me,… Continue reading »

A few years back I had the pleasure of traveling to the Venice Biennale with two women artists friends. During our stay I maintained my daily practice of running, often… Continue reading »

In advance of my upcoming Writers’ Banquet (food and memory) workshop for UCLA Extension Writers’ Program (see classes above) I’m happy to share this excerpt from Compromise Cake: Lessons Learned… Continue reading »

While getting ready for my upcoming UCLA Extension Words & Pictures Class (Feb. 20-21), I came across this piece I wrote for Coagula Arts Journal in 2007. Done a couple… Continue reading »

            To an outsider that crock filled with bubbling beige gunk on my kitchen counter may look like something waiting to be thrown out. To me it is a… Continue reading »

In Part I, May, 2017, I revisited Northern California’s food scene circa the 1970s and ’80s, while contemplating our current irksome eating habits. Restaurant dining had come to feel  like… Continue reading »