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Drawing Conclusions & Startling Moments

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 »

Soured For Life

            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 »

What’s Eating Us, Part II: You Say Yuca and I Say Cassava!

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 »

Fins Over Feathers: A Fish-Giving Tale

While I get ready to teach my Spring UCLA Extension Writers’ Program Class Finding Your Voice, I offer you this holiday piece from last Fall’s Edible Ojai/Ventura. Enjoy!   OR:… Continue reading »

Expiration Dates

         While working on the audio version of my novel Entertaining Disasters, getting ready for my summer class, Finding Your Voice, at UCLA Extension’s Writers’ Program, and… Continue reading »

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