Category: How to Live a Human Life

  • What do you call it when you don’t write? Hell? Oh, block.

    2:44am. It’s been a long time since I’ve written. Just woke from a dream in which a woman is talking about writing with a fountain pen and how it is perfect for those times when you know what you want to write, and it is relatively short. Then I woke up and thought, I guess…

  • Because

    You can start anywhere, and there will still be stuff before that, just as pertinent to the story you want to tell. But you have to start somewhere, so a good recipe. I’m supposed to have a game plan, a clear picture of where this is going, but honestly, the idea started in 2004, and…

  • In the Beginning

    There was a recipe. A very good, plain recipe to nourish the body and mind. Lentils, Monastery Style (Adapted from Diet for a Small Planet, by Frances Moore Lappé) 2 Tbsp olive oil 2 large onions, chopped 2 carrots, chopped ½ teaspoon thyme ½ teaspoon marjoram 3 cups seasoned stock 1 cup lentils, rinsed Salt…