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I’ve been trying to find meaning in making pasta.

September 2, 2016

I love packing. I love packing so much that even now, just thinking about it — the unzipping of the suitcase, the careful piling of […]

April 29, 2016

My junior year at boarding school, I took up making French macarons in a dorm kitchen used by 40 other girls.

April 22, 2016

My mother likes to send me pictures of food. Afternoon, evening and late at night, I’ll check my phone and there’ll be another text or […]

April 22, 2016

Oct. 20, 2012 was World Squash Day, a holiday declared by fans around the world to facilitate the inclusion of squash in the Olympics. To […]

April 15, 2016

In the Saybrook Library, in one of the study rooms off to the left, there is a drawer full of left-behind things. There is a […]

April 15, 2016

The first documented sighting of the Bro is widely thought to have been in 1872 in the small township of Bortdale, Scotland. Mrs. Earnesta Williams, the local butter churner and laundress, kept meticulous records on the transformation of Dr. John Jones, the town’s respected surgeon. On Dec. 4, 1872, the doctor was on his way to pick up some bloodied towels; he had performed a rather tedious bloodletting the other day and had no clean cloths for the exorcism he was scheduled to do after dinner.

April 8, 2016

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April 8, 2016

How often do you think about death? I think about it a lot.

April 8, 2016

Nora and Jeff’s $26/night, patch-of-dirt Airbnb rental is a four-song drive from the Big Bend National Park entrance in Terlingua, Texas.

April 1, 2016

When I was younger, my mother used to read me a book about a dog named Spotty. Spotty was this cute Dalmatian who, through his dog walker’s love, grows to be 20 feet tall and saves a small child from a burning building.

April 1, 2016