I have endometriosis and it sucks.

I am sad. I am feeling sorry for myself. Maybe this blog is just for me to post when I feel sad and mad. I guess it’s true that no one writes (or feels the urge to write) when they’re happy – and I am busy enough and happy enough normally that this means I […]

Congrats, you made it.

If you’re reading this, congratulations. You survived 2020, a historically epically bad and tragic year. Well done. Now how did you do? And how are you going to handle the next however many months of this pandemic? Because however much people have been wishing a good riddance to 2020 over the last few days, the […]

What even is “authentic”

I want to write a much longer post on this as it is something I think about a lot. But to be brief, the “authenticity” snobbery present in a lot of the foodie world really annoys me. It doesn’t make you clever that you don’t like Hawaiian pizza because no Italian would ever dream of […]

Winters are for writing

There is a change in the seasons right now. I can feel it. The weather has gone from mild, misty autumn days to the crisp clean chill of winter. Frost is in the air. Today the sky was so blue and bright, I had to wear sunglasses. The clocks went back on Sunday. It gets […]