{And the Fellowship of Hype}So. I just finished The Art of Fielding. The passages about baseball were unexpectedly glorious; the doomed gay affair at the heart of the novel surprisingly dull. But I d...
{Plus A Weekend Still Life}Remember Dog vs. Goon Squad? My Twitter analogy is now an actuality: Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Egan has me absolutely riveted to the thriller serial shes writing for t...
{The Blousiest Betties of Them All}Peonies: A One-Act Play by P. Owney PickinsScene One: Mid-May, early morning, rural New Jersey, Revolution-era cottage garden (somewhat overgrown and in n...
{Paradise in the Garden State}Dear Prudence,If two reasonably handy, particularly foolhardy people, can, say, restore a 1978 13-foot Scamp travel trailer, those two people could i...
{Friends with Porches}When my best friend from growing up was in grad school she lived in a turn-of-the-century saltb ox cottage right on the Sound in Branford, Connecticut. We called it the...
{The I-Ate-An-Entire-Cake-And-It-Wa s-Worth-It Almond Cake}Now that grad school is out for the summer Im making up for lost time in the kitchen, and what better way to get back in the swing of things ...
{Moving Forward}We interrupt our regularly scheduled tear-inducing family-dog-death programming to bring you a quick uplifting iPhone picture of some new high fire ceramics. Sad? Make pots! We unload...
{Farewell, Old Friend}If youve been reading bigBANG for any period of time you may remember a blue merle blur in many of the shots of the farm; thats Nellie, our beloved farm dog, who lay her sweet h...
{Surviving April}Im still alive! Just rul busy. MFA life has opened its big grouper mouth and swallowed the minnow of normal life in one big gulp; I havent seen my husband in almost three weeks (what...
{Courtesy of One Ms. Amy Merrick}A birthday only lasts a day, but arrangements by Amy Merrick last forever. Ok, maybe only a few days, but the memory of them I will cherish in my wee brain ...
{Thirty}So overwhelmed with love and gratitude from the Surprise Birthday Weekend Im a giddy emotional and physical wreck from the bourbon-infused bacchanalia. More about that later, but ri...
{Spring 2011 vs. Spring 2012: A Comparative Analys is}This time last year we were planning our escape from sweltering Jaipur to the vertiginous wilds of Ladakh, that forgotten kingdom a...
{And Peach Blossoms in the Studio}Instead of doing my political theory reading last night I poured a glass of (questionable) cheap wine and stayed up until two reading Swamplandia! and loving ev...
{Franconia Prefab as Shaker Village}More pictures from our winter trip up to the prefab in Franconia, New Hampshire, where I somehow managed to catch a few quiet shots of the place despite the fact t...
{Worthy Distractions in Three Bites}Bite No. I:Kinfolk Magazine Volume III is out today! I pored through mine in bed this morning with my window flung open, cup of tea in hand, and its even thicker, ...
{Look Pretty, Talk Mean}A few broken stems from a larger bundle of farmers market flowers plus some restrained sidewalk plucking around Dolores Park make for an easy-to-love San Francisco posy: blush...
{In Which We Covet Unicorns, Succulents, Taxidermy & Rare Books}Questionnaire:1. Do you get excited by words like epiphyte and bromeliad?2. Have you ever considered wallpapering your bedroom...
{In Which We Reclaim Our Sanity in the Redwoods}Greetings from San Francisco, the best place on earth for Catching Up on Sisterly Hijinks. Seriously, we should all pack up our Scamps and head straigh...
{On The Merits of Whiskey Sours & Meeting Online Frienz}Its been crazytown this past week with meetings, all-nighters, show prep, and studio visits up the wazoo, but come hell or bespok...
{Plus Five Links Worth Clicking}Just back from a much-needed trip to the wilds of New Hampshire with the huz and a crew of nine wonderful friends. On Sunday afternoon as everyone napped off their han...
{Happy Valenthymes, Muggles}If youre in New York today stop by Castor & Pollux (238 W. 10th St between Bleeker and Hudson in the West Village) where the divine Amy Merrick has set up shop fr...
{Or, Your Standard Friday Evening in Agra}Flashback to our trip to Agra to visit our beloved friend Mukul, who was and always will be the gold standard of effervescent Indian hospitality. Mukul was b...
{Or, Hotel for Dogs}What I wouldnt give for a weekend at the Ace in Palm Springs. You know they allow dogs, right? Thats the best part. Also wonderful? Their use of local talent. I get a swell of hig...
{A Proper Winter Meal & Some bigBANG Housekeeping}Pictures from a recent dinner at Flatbush Farm, on the edge of Park Slope in Brooklyn. P. and I arrived early and sat at the bar before the place...
{And Some Thoughts on Kudzu, Pie and The Speculative Real Estate Market}Im listening to a story on All Things Considered about how were all gunna get overtaken and devoured alive by kudzu as climate ...
{This Time Last Year}Hard to believe this time last year I was sweating my kurta off in an old spice warehouse in Mattancherry, an ancient spice trading port in Indias southern emerald state of Keral...
{In Which We Rethink Camille Paglia Over Waffles}Meg Keene and I have been, how do I put this, ONLINE FRIENDS for a few years. Dear friends in fact; she bought one of my paintings with her book advan...
{Finally, The Work! Plus An Essay!}Installation View / from left to right: Garden Club and Mountain SeriesGarden Club / 96 x 156 in. / acrylic on unstretched canvas / 20...
{In Which We Go Back To Work}The partys over, kids. This morning P. dislodged our truck from street parking entombment and headed back to Massachusetts for Round Two/spring term of graduate scho...
{The Sense of an Ending}On Sunday morning I poured a cup of coffee and cracked the slender spine of Julian Barness 2011 Man Booker Prize-winner The Sense of An Ending. I read it in one sitting, and a...
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