The time has come for that yearly event that must be experienced to be believed, that great yellowing of earth…and trees, and cars, and decks, and dogs, and, yes, definitely air. Spring is here and with it comes what I have termed The Other Yellow Snow. And it has only just begun. In preparation for homemade…
“At one point I had wires looped three times through your heart,” said interventional cardiologist Dr. Pratik Sandesara, to my husband the next day. I have secretly dubbed this man ‘Ariadne,’ the archetypal weaver from Greek mythology. The maze is the cardiovascular system. The Minotaur was the complete block in the artery. Theseus is the the…
Two weeks in a row I spent Atlanta’s tornado watches in the cardiac care waiting room at Emory Midtown Hospital. There’s nothing quite so destabilizing as waiting for test results, while watching the sky turn dark and the fog get so bad I couldn’t see the building across the street, and wondering if my house…
I’d love to tell you that I spent my holiday time off recharging and rejuvenating, but the truth is that I nearly experienced death by lilies. I had no idea how toxic their pollen can be until day 5 of the presence of a beautiful flower arrangement we had on our dining room table, when…
For all my writing about loving long days and how I would fight to the death to keep Daylight Savings Time legal, I have a confession to make: I seriously love the Winter Solstice. Perhaps it’s that I love (and maybe run at) extremes, and the celebration of an extra long night of stars (if…
I’d love to tell you that I start every morning with with a cup of a tea and a sketchbook. Well, I do…sort of. The calming ritual of tea, pen, and paper is the first thing I do in the studio each morning, but, if I’m honest, I check my calendar and my email before…
Johnnie Jo’s Famous Cake Recipe: I stood in the kitchen of my old apartment, talking to my grandmother on a brick sized cordless phone, while thumbing through the Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook I’d scored at Border’s Book’s outdoor sale table. “It’s not here!” I complained to her. “There’s not a single recipe that sounds…
